610 FOURTH REPORT — 1834. 



Notice of Birds observed in Sutherlandshirey June 1834. 

 By P. J. Selby, F.R.S. %c. 



Ordo Raptores. 



Fam. Falconid^e. 



1. Aquila Chrysaetos. "1 Common in the North and West of Su- 

 , 2. Halia'etus albicillus. J therland ; very destructive to sheep and 

 lambs. Premiums paid for their destruction : 171 full-grown 

 birds killed within the last three years. 



3. Pandion Halia'etus. Common on the north-west coast. 



4. Falco peregrimts. 



5. Falc. Tinnunculus. Abundant. 



6. Milvus vulgaris. 



7. Buteo vulgaris. 



8. Circus cyaneus. Only one individual seen. 



(A^o Strigidce seen.) 



Ordo Insessores. 

 Tribus Fissirostbes. Fam. Hirundinid^;. 



9. Hirundo rustica. 



10. Hir. urbica. Smoo cave, and limestone rocks, Inch-na-damff. 



11. Hir. riparia. 



12. Cypselus murarius. Smoo cave. 



Fam. ToDiD^. 



13. Muscicapa Grisola. Rose Bank, south of Sutherland. 



Tribus Dentirostres. Fam. Merulid*. 



14. Merula musica. Abundant more to the northern extremity of 



Sutherland, wherever birch coppice abounds. All of the com- 

 mon species, and no appearance of a smaller kind, called by 

 Mr. Laidler the little brown thrush. 



15. Mer. vulgaris. Rare. 



16. Mer. torquata. Abundant in all the mountainous parts. 



17. Cinclus aquaticus. Now becoming rare, as it is destroyed by 



every device, from an idea that it feeds upon the salmon spawn. 

 This is not established. 



Fam. Sylviad^. 



18. Sylvia phragmites. Met with throughout the greater part of 



Sutherland. 



19. Sylv. Trochilus. Ditto, wherever birch abounds. 



20. Curruca cinerea. In the South of Sutherland. 



21. Erythrtjea Rubecula. 



22. Phcenicura Rutacilla. 



23. Saxicola (Enanthe. Very abundant throughout the county. 



24. Sax. Rubetra. 



25. Sax. Rubicola. 



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