26 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



Of tlie seventeen species wliich breed only in an arctic climate a few 

 individuals of the two first mentioned find what they require on some of 

 the Scotch Islands. It may be remarked that they belong principally to 

 the Limicolae, though the list contains a few Anseres, three Passerine Birds, 

 and an Owl: — 



Numenius phoeopus. 



Tot anus glottis. 



Tringa temmincki. 



Tringa subarquata. 



Tringa platyrhynclia. 



Totanus fuscns. 



Limosa rvfa. 



Scolopax gallinula. 



Cygnus musicus. 



Cygnus beioicki. 



Anser segetum. 



Anser minutus. 



Somateria stelleri. 



Erithacus suecica. 



Aiithus cervinus. 



Emberiza pusilla. 



Surniafunerea. 



Of the fifteen species whose breeding-range is both arctic and subarctic 

 at least half of them breed in greater or less numbers in our Islands : — 



Falco (ssalon. 



Larus canus. 



Cliaradrius morinellus. 



Circus cyaneus. 



Anas crecca. 



Mergus merganser. 



Anas penelope. 



Totanus glareola. 



Totanus pugnax. 



Mergus albellus. 



Grus communis. 



Lowia leucoptera bifasciata. 



Bubo maximus. 



Emberiza rustica. 



Nucifraga caryocatactes. 



