THE VEKTEBEATE 

 FAUNA OF SUTHERLANDSHIEE. 



By T. E. Buckley, B.A., F.Z.S., Member of the British Ornith- 

 ologists' Union ; and J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., 

 Member of the British Ornithologists' Union, President Royal 

 Phyl. Soc., Edin., and Corresponding Member of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, etc. etc. 



Introductory ; and Physical Aspects. 



In the joint preparation of this account we have con- 

 sidered that while Mr. T. E. Buckley takes in hand the 

 eastern districts of the county, as having had greater 

 experience of that portion, Mr. Harvie- Brown should 

 undertake the western and northern portions for the 

 same reason, and it became advisable to define more 

 accurately the two districts thus separated. This was 

 done with comparative ease, as the high road between 

 Lairg and Tongue formed a very natural as well as con- 

 venient division ; Mr. Buckley knowing more of the fauna 

 to the east of that line, and Mr. Harvie-Brown more of 

 the fauna to the west of that line. An advantage is also 

 found in that it fairly well represents a natural division 

 between the high and rugged ranges of the western land, 

 and the smoother, more gently undulating, moss and moor- 

 land of the eastern division ; which latter, though it claims 

 amongst its most noticeable features several goodly 

 mountains, such as Ben Clibrick and Ben Armine, and a 

 wild stretch of deer-forest around Dunrobin, yet, is per- 



