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Clibrich is assuredly the most likely looking hill in the county 

 for its nesting habits, I would Avish to see more conclusive 

 evidence before admitting it permanently to a place in this 

 list. 



THE EINGED PLOVER 



AEGIALITIS HIATICULA {Linnaeus). 



Abundant on the east and north coasts, but almost absent in 

 Assynt, where I only knew of one place at which two pairs, at 

 most, breed every year. It is there found in company with the 

 Dunlins, which are also only found in Assynt in this single 

 locahty. Mr Selby remarks that tliis species is found "very 

 numerously on the margins of all the lochs and larger streams," 

 but this must only be held as applicable to those lochs in 

 the north and east of the county. I have never obtained the 

 eggs from any part of Sutherland, and I doubt if they are so abun- 

 dant now. Is it not possible that Mr Selby only saw them on 

 migration 1 



THE LAPWING. 



VANELLUS CRI STATUS, Meyer. 



Very abundant in the east and central districts, and this is 

 perhaps specially observable about Lairg and Bonar. In the west 

 it is also abundant in one locality, but elsewhere is comparatively 

 scarce, there being few moors and mosses sufficiently level for 

 its habits. 



OYSTER CATCHER. 



HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS (Linnaeus). 



Very numerous. On the west coast it never comes inland to 

 breed, but frequents all the sea-lochs, and especially the Badcall 

 islands. On Loch Shin it breeds, and also in the north. I have 

 observed an occasional pair upon Loch Assynt, but the men who 

 were with me on such occasions seemed invariably surprised at 

 their presence, and all agreed that they were only rarely seen 

 there, and I never heard of their nest having been found. In 

 other counties, as is well known, they breed numerously on the 

 larger rivers, for instance, the Tay, Tummel, Spey, Dee, and Don. 



