330 APPENDIX. 



Frog Rana temporaria (Linn.) 



Very common, ascending to considerable elevations, and fond of clear 

 stony streams coming off the granite or mica. Apparently rarer in the 

 limestone districts. 



Toad Bufo vulgaris (Laurent). 



Also common, and ascends clear mountain burns to a considerable alti- 

 tude. The same remark as regards comparative rarity in the lime- 

 stone districts applies as to the last species. 



Rough Newt Triton cristatus (Laurent). 



Not uncommon. Wolley recorded it, and Messrs. Alston and Harvie- 

 Brown have met with it on several occasions near Loch Assynt, and 

 the latter gentleman once close to Loch Inver. 



Smooth Newt Triton taimatus (Schneider). 

 Not uncommon. 



Palmated Newt Triton palmipes (Latreille). 

 The only record of this species as yet obtained, is that by Mr. Wolley, 

 who wrote in the Zoologist (1848, p. 2265) " I have to report the ex- 

 istence of our recently ascertained Newt on the extreme north of the 

 Island. On the 1st August I found several females and one male in a 

 little freshwater peaty pool, a few hundred yards from the high-water 

 mark, on the side of the hills which rise from Loch Erriboll, and on 

 the west side of the loch. It is an inlet of the sea, about sixteen 

 miles to the east of Cape Wrath, on the north coast of Sutherland." 

 Mr. Alston wrote commenting on this "We are not aware of the 

 species having been found in any other part of the North Highlands." 

 (Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1880, p. 149.) 



AVES. 

 Family FALCONID.E. 



The Golden Eagle Aquila Clirysaetos (Linn.) 



Resident : still abundant : generally distributed wherever suitable rest 

 and quiet is afforded. Not now so much killed down as formerly, 

 when, about 1834, in three years' time, no less than 171 full-grown 

 eagles, besides 53 young birds and eggs were destroyed (Selby). In 

 1877 Mr. Crawford, Tongue, considered there had been a decrease of 

 Eagles owing to extravagant prices offered by collectors. It, is not our 

 intention here to make public all the eyries of the county, though we 

 believe almost every site is known to us. Most abundant in the west 

 and north, rarer in the east and south ; we are, however, glad to be 

 able to add that one eyrie, for :years deserted, and situated in the 

 south-east, has again been tenanted for the last two or three years, 

 and most of the other eyries are still used. 



In one glen six of these birds have been seen at one time ; some of 

 these would probably be young birds reared by a pair of birds that 

 breed regularly there. 



White-tailed Eagle Haliaetus albidlla (Linn. ) 

 Resident : not so abundant as the Golden Eagle in this county : their 

 eyries principally confined to the coast-line. Eyries can be counted 

 on one's fingers. A position said to be perfectly inaccessible is at a 

 point a little east of Whiten Head, on the north coast. Another, nearer 

 Cape Wrath, is not inaccessible, though only reached by one man 



