TRANSACTIONS. 



SESSION 1902-1903. 



1.—S0ME ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS 

 OF PERTHSHIRE. 



By Mr BRUCE CAMPBELL. 

 {Read Nov. 36, 1902.) 



The following notes are supplementary to my paper read in 

 December 1901, and refer chiefly to the same district. In 

 May last Mr Laidlaw and I spent a day or two in the north 

 of Perthshire, our principal object being to visit, and photo- 

 graph if possible, the nest of the Golden Eagle of which we 

 had heard on our visit of the previous year. We left Edin- 

 burgh on a Friday evening, intending to visit the nest on the 

 following day. When Saturday came it neither brought our 

 guide nor any tidings of him. However, we met with a 

 youth who kindly drew an accurate sketch of the hill and 

 the exact spot where the nest was usually situated. Armed 

 with our chart, we set out on Monday morning. We drove 

 eight or nine miles along a road, where we left our con- 

 veyance and procured a couple of hill ponies. These, it may 

 be mentioned, we intended to use chiefly in fording the river. 

 We proceeded along a path for four or five miles, observing 

 by the way four eagles, several ravens, dippers, &c. We now 

 proceeded to cross the river on the ponies, two at a time. 

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