ON THE GREAT CRESTED GREBE 69 



considered it to be a winter visitor to Scotland, and as that 

 in no great abundance." {Nat. Lib. B. Birds, part iv,, p. 202.) 

 The first time the Great Crested Grebe is recorded as breed- 

 ing in Scotland is in the Zoologist, 1889, p. 386, by Mr Robert 

 Read, who found a nest that year at i-larelaw Dam in Clyde. 

 Although this is the first published record, yet, as will be 

 seen below, there are several perfectly authentic instances of 

 earlier breeding on other lochs, which were not published 

 at the time, but of which we have been kindly informed by 

 correspondents. After this Great Crested Grebes were found 

 breeding in various localities, and we append a list of the 

 definite dated records we have been able to discover, dealing 

 more fully with these under faunal areas. 



Chronological List of Scottish Breeding Places of the 

 Great Crested Grebe. 



1877 (about). Loch o' the Lowes, Perthshire (Lieut. -Commander 



J. G. Millais, (71 lift). 

 Between 1879 and 1881. Lindores, North Fife (Lieut.-Commander 



J. G. Millais, in lift.). 

 1886 (about). Bishop Loch, Lanarkshire (John Robertson, in lift.). 



1889. Harelaw Dam, Renfrewshire {Zoologist, 1889, p. 386). 



1890. Carron Dam, Stirlingshire {A.S.N.H., 1894, p. 181). 



1 89 1. Castle Loch, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire {Birds of Dunifries- 



shire, p. 459), 

 1896. Loch Gelly, South Fife {Scot. Nat., 19 19, p. 49). 

 1896. Lake of Menteith, S.W. Perthshire {A.S.N.H., 1897, p. 161). 



1896. White Loch of Myrton, Wigtownshire {A.S.N. H., 1897 



p. 19). 



1897. Brother Loch, Renfrew (John Robertson, /// ////.). 



1900. Loch Fithie, Forfar {Fauna of the Tay Basin and Strathmore, 



P- 350- 

 1904 Snaigow, Perthshire {Tra?is. Perth Soc. of Natural Science, 

 1905, vol. iv. p. 84). 



1904. Black Loch, Lindores, N. Fife {Fauna of the Tay Basin and 



St?-athniore, p. 352). 

 1904. Mill Loch, Dumfriesshire {Birds of Dumfriesshire, pp 459 



and 460). 



1906. Camilla Loch, South Fife {Scot. Nat., 191 9, p. 49). 



1906 (about). Woodend Loch, Lanark (John Robertson, in litt.). 



1907. Cobbinshaw Reservoir, Midlothian {Scot. Nat., 1919, p. 50). 



