APPENDIX. FISHES. 417 



LARUS LEUCOPTERUS [Iceland Gull]. 



Sometimes, during winter, a specimen of this northern bird may 

 be obtained, but mostly in an immature state of plumage. 



LARUS FUSCUS [Lesser Blackbacked Gull]. 



Met with now and then, but not in great plenty. It does not 

 nestle here. 



LARUS ARGENTATUS [Herring Gull]. 



Breeds at Gamrie Head and at Troup. Numbers are taken when 

 young by the fishermen and their children, and brought up 

 quite tame, walking about the villages like poultry. 



LARUS MARINUS [Great Blackjacked Gull]. 



Like his lesser brethren, this gentleman is but a visitor here, and 



generally goes before he gets his black coat. 

 LARUS GLAUCUS [Glaucous Gull]. 



A female, in an immature state of plumage, was killed in Gamrie. 

 LESTUS CATARRACTES [Common Skua], and 

 LESTUS RICHARDSONI [Richardson's Skua]. 



Both are to be met with as visitors, the latter the rarer of the two. 

 PROCELLARIA GLACIALIS [Fulmar Petrel]. 



An occasional winter visitor. I had a specimen sent me from 

 Gamrie, which approached a boat so closely that one of the 

 fishermen knocked it down with an oar ; this was several miles 

 out at sea. 



PUFFINUS MAJOR [Great Shearwater], and 

 PUFFINUS OBSCURUS [Dusky Shearwater]. Only winter visitors. 

 THALASSIDROMA PELAGICA [Stormy Petrel]. 



A visitor, like the rest of its kindred, but more frequent, and may 

 be met with at intervals all the year round. The superstitious 

 dread of this little bird by sailors and fishermen is well known. 



With the stormy petrel ends my List of the Birds of Banffshire. 

 Many species given as " rare" may turn out to be of frequent occur- 

 rence, and many given as "occasional visitors" may prove to be 

 natives. Species, too, not mentioned in this List may have to be in- 

 cluded in the birds of the county ; and no one will be more pleased to 

 hear of such additions than myself. 



FISHES. 



LABRAX LUPUS [The Basse or Sea Perch]. 



This is a rare species with us, only three having come tinder my 

 notice. One of these, a beautiful specimen, was found dead in 

 our river, the Deveron, not far from its mouth, in 1839. 

 ACERINA VULGARIS [The Ruffe or Pope]. 



One is said to have been obtained off Troup Head about forty-two 

 years ago. 



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