380 The Scottish Naturalist. 



southern Kincardine, the whole of Forfar, and that portion of 

 Perth not falling within the Forth district, and the northern part 

 of Fife, there are 156. A few, however, of these marked as 

 resident may possibly not always remain, but may shift according 

 to the nature of the season. 



In the above statement a difference will be found in the num- 

 bers as compared with those in the preliminary report published 

 two years ago. This is caused in some measure by a few necessary 

 alterations in what may be considered resident species or other- 

 wise, distinctions often very difficult to define, also from several 

 additions which have been made known to me since that list was 

 drawn up causing some change, which must be the case the more 

 a knowledge of the local ornithology of the district progresses. 

 In conclusion, I may add, that in giving the foregoing statistics, 

 not having been able to compile them from actual personal 

 observation, excepting in the county of Perth, and in some parts 

 of the other counties, but there only in a cursory way, I feel very 

 much is due to those correspondents who have so kindly favoured 

 me with much valuable information on the distribution of the 

 various species, and to whom I tender my very best thanks ; also 

 I am much indebted to the various authorities from whom I have 

 quoted, for the knowledge of many rare species which visit our 

 shores, and especially have I been aided by a perusual of Mr. 

 Gray's "Birds of West Scotland," in which many of our rarest 

 birds on the east coast are enumerated, as also by that of Mr. Horn's 

 " Notes on the Birds of the Buchan District." From both of these 

 I have derived much valuable assistance in drawing up the present 

 list in my report, which, however, I must leave open to others for 

 further investigation, believing, that when circulated, as suggested 

 in the preliminary report, to be added to, and altered, as occasion 

 requires, a clear and perfect insight to the Bird Fauna of the 

 Eastern Counties of Central Scotland will very soon be obtained. 



I here take the opportunity of mentioning that in the prelimi- 

 nary report under the subject "Bibliography" I inadvertently 

 omitted to make mention of Mr. Horn's papers on the ornithology 

 of the district of Buchan, in Aberdeenshire, and that of ^trathtay, 

 in Perthshire, published in the proceedings of the Natural History 

 Society of Glasgow, and of which, as before alluded to, I have 

 gladly availed myself in compiling the above list. 



