48 The Scottish Naturalist. 



their individual observations, these registers to be published in Journals such as 

 the " Scottish Naturalist,"* the end desired would soon be accomplished. The 

 following is a list of the breeding birds in two parishes— Drum blade and Huntly — 

 in the N. W. of Aberdeenshire, the eggs or young of all of which I have found, 

 with the exception of one or two, and the eggs of these I know from the highest 

 authority have been found : — 



Teal [Anas crecc'a) ; Wild Duck (A. BoscAas) ; Moorhen (Gattinula chloro- 

 pus) ; Landrail [Crex pratensis) ; Jack Snipe* [Scolopax Gallinula) ; Common 

 Snipe (S. GalHnago) ; Woodcock (.S". rusticola) ; Con'imon Sandpiper (Totanus 

 hypoleucos) ; Red Shank ( T. calidris) ; Curlew (Numenius arquata) ; [Heron 

 [Ardea cinerea), doubtful] ; Peewit (Vanellus cristatus) ; Golden Plover 

 (Charadrius pluvialis) ; Partridge (Perdix cinerea) ; Red Grouse (Lagopis 

 Scoticus) ; 1 heasant (Phasianus colchicus) ; Rock Dove {Columba livia), in the 

 common domestic pigeon ; Ring Dove (Cclumba palumbus) ; Swift (Cypselus 

 apus) ; Sand Martin (Hirundo riparia) ; Martin (H. urbica) ; Swallow (H. 

 rnstica) : Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) — I have never found its egg, but from its 

 very frequent occurrence it is highly probable that it breeds here ; Wren ( Trog- 

 lodytes europa'us) ; Creeper (Certhia familiar is) ; Magpie (Pica caudata) ; 

 Jackdaw (Corvus Monedula) ; Rook (C.frugilegus) ; Hooded Crow (C. Cornix) ; 

 Carrion Crow (C. coronc) ; Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) ; Bullfinch (Loxia 

 Pyrrhula) ; Mountain Linnet (Linota montium) ; Linnet (L. cannabina) ; 

 Goldfinch (Carduelis elegans) ; Greenfinch (Coccothraustes chloris) ; House 

 Sparrow (Passer domeslicus) ; Mountain Finch (Fringilla montifringilla) ; 

 Chaffinch (/''. Calebs) ; Yellow Bunting (Emberiza citrine/la) ; Blackheaded 

 Bunting (E. scha:niclus) ; Bunting (E. miliaria) ; Wood Lark (Alauda arborea) \ 

 Sky Lark (A. arvensis) ; Meadow Pipit (An thus pratensis) ; Grey Wagtail 

 (Moticillaflava)\ Yellow or Ray's Wagtail ( M. boarulaj; Pied Wagtail (M. 

 alba\) ; Longtailed Tit (Parus caudatus) ; Cole Tit (P. ater) ; Blue Tit (P. ccerw 

 leus) ; Golden crested Regulus (Regulus cristatus) ; Willow Warbler (Sylvia 

 Trochilus) ; White Throat (Curruca cinerea) ; Wheat Ear (Saxicola CEnanthe)-, 

 Whin Chat (S. rubetra) ; Red Start {Ruticilla pliarnicurus) ; Red' Breast (Ery- 

 thaca rubecnla); Hedge Accentor (Accentor modularis) ; Ring Ouzel (Turdus 

 torquatus) ; Blackbird (T. Merula) ; [Red Wing (T. Jliacus), and Field Fare 

 (T. pilaris) ; winter visitants] ; Song Thrush (7". music us) ; Missel Thrush (T. 

 viscivorus) ; Dipper (C/nclus aquaticus) ; Tawny Owl (Syrnium Aluco) ; White 

 Owl (Strix flammed) ; Shorteared Owl (Otut brachyotus) ; Sparrow Hawk 

 (Accipiter Xisus) ; Kestrel (Falco tinnun cuius) ; Merlin (F. ^Esalon.) — H. O. 

 Forbes, Aberdeen. 



The Greenland Shark.— (Scymnus horealis.) — Three specimens of this 



fish, usually rather rarft on the British coast, have been caught in the bay at 

 Aberdeen, within the last year, two having been caught in March, 1870, the 

 largest of which was 10 feet long. It is now in the University Museum. The 

 third specimen was caught on 26th January, 1871, but was quite small, being 

 only $}4 feet in length. It was much infested with parasites, having an 

 /Ega attached to its skin, a Larneopoda elongata on each eye, close to the 

 pupil, and on the gills many specimens of an Entosoon, I think a species of 



*A very doubtful breeder in Britain. What grounds has Mr Forbes for thinking 

 that the Jack Snipe breeds in Aberdeenshire? Ed. Sc. Nat. 

 \ Otherwise called M. Yarellii. 



