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260 Manx Shearwater. — Reported from Montrose. I have myself 

 seen it at the mouth of the Tay. 



261. Fulmar Petrel.— An adult specimen was got on the East Sands, 

 St. Andrews, by Mr. R. Walker, on the 6th July, 1867 ; and a wounded bird 

 was caught on the West Sands, in Oct., 1868 ; and one was shot on the Eden, 

 Dec, 1870 (Scot. Nat., 1871, p. 8r). Another, now in the P.S.N.S. Museum, 

 was got on the Tents Muir Sands at the mouth of the Tay in Feb., 1880. 



263. Common Guillemot breeds plentifully in Kincardine on the cliffs 

 called " Fowlsheugh, " south of Dunottar, along with other seabirds ; it has 

 been shot several times on Loch Tay. 



264. Black Guillemot, used to be common outside Aberdeen har- 

 bour, but I do not know of its breeding in Aberdeenshire. When stationed in 

 Aberdeen many years ago I had frequent opportunities of observing these birds 

 during the breeding season on the Kincardine coast, along by Cove and 

 Muchalls, and, though I never looked for their nests, I always supposed them 

 to be breeding among the rocks at the foot of the cliffs, as they were there the 

 whole of the season, and I obtained them in all stages of plumage. In Perth 

 it has been got several times on Loch Tay. 



265. Little Auk occasionally driven up the estuary of the Tay in 



stormy weather; this was peculiarly the case in the very severe winter just 

 before Christmas 1878, when large numbers spread inland from the mouth of 

 the Tay. 



266 Puffin, is reported by Rev. T. Bell from up the Don early in spring, 

 no doubt driven in by stress of weather ; it has been shot above the bridge at 

 Perth. 



268. Black-throated Diver breeds on several Perthshire lochs ; a 

 very fine nest, with two large eggs, much like those of the Great Northern 

 Diver, are in P.S.N.S. Museum, from Rannoch. 



269- Red-throated Diver has been got at Barry, at the mouth of 

 the Tay, in spring, in full breeding plumage. 



