INTRODUCTORY. XV. 



The common Bunting, Fieldfare, Golden Plover, 

 Snow Bunting, and Brambling or Monntain 

 Finch are only to be found in autumn and 

 winter. 



The rare birds with us are the Jay, Magpie, 

 Red Start, Gold-Crested Wren, Buzzard, Siskin, 

 Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker. 



The Water Voles burrow in the banks of the 

 streams, and the Brown Rat is too plentiful in 

 about the farm-steadings. Otters are by no 

 means plentiful, being trapped or shot when 

 seen. This is much to be regretted. Game of 

 all kinds, both fur and feather, abounds Roe- 

 Deer, Brown Hares (the White Hares only visit 

 us in severe winters), Rabbits, Red Grouse, 

 Black Grouse, Capercailzie, Pheasants, and 

 Partridges. The Squirrel is to be found in all 

 the woods, and Moles in the cultivated fields. 

 Hedgehogs are numerous, but a Badger or a 

 Fox is a rare sight. We have the common 

 Bat ; and here I may remark that on the 

 2nd June, 1900, at noon, the sun shining 



