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July of last year, 1887, on the north shores of the Moray 

 Frith, near Fortrose, as not unfrequent. 



66. Mountain Linnet, is now ascertained to breed in 

 Forfarshire, as Mr. Nicol Simpson {in litt. 8th August 

 1887), informs me that under the name of the " Rock 

 Lintie " it breeds regularly about Arbroath, nesting under 

 tufts on the cliffs, and that it is so-called, in opposition to 

 the common Brown Linnet, there designated as the 

 " Heather Lintie," from its habit of breeding on the moors- 

 and more open grounds. 



81. Red-Shouldered Starling. r From a letter received from 

 his Grace the Duke of Argyle it would appear that the 

 l>ird shot in Rannoch, was, in alljprobability, one out of 

 several of this species, males and females, liberated by his 

 Grace at Inverary Castle, about three weeks previous to the 

 date of its capture ; it cannot therefore be considered as 

 properly belonging to the District. 



93. Great Spotted Woodpecker. Mr. James Henderson 

 of Dundee (in litt. 14th May, 1888) informs me that speci- 

 mens of this bird have recently been obtained both in 

 Perthshire and Forfarshire, at Lundie and at Alyth. 



97. Kingfisher. Dr. Howden, Montrose, mentions that this 

 bird is frequently seen on the North and South Esks,. 

 (communicated December 1887.) 



* 122. Greenland Gyr-Falcon. (Falco canehcans)* very 



fine female specimen was seen to haunt the vicinity of 

 Rannoch Lodge, Perthshire, for several days in the spring 

 of the present year 1888, but, being found very destructive 

 to the game, it was shot, on the 7th of May, by Mr. 

 John M'Donald, keeper to Sir Robert Menzies, by whom 

 it was presented to the Museum of the Perthshire Society 

 of Natural Science at Perth where it has now been placed- 

 Mr. Seebohm in his " British Birds and Eggs," mentions Mr. 

 Gray as instancing an immature male got in Perthshire in 

 the spring of 1862, "locality not stated." These two are 

 the only records of this very rare species being obtained 

 in the Eastern counties (within the Union) that I am 

 aware of. 

 128 Osprey. A pair of these birds bred last summer, 1887, at 

 Loch Ordie, Dunkeld. The nest, which was of bulky con- 



