378 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
Strath-na-Shallag; Mr John Stuart, Applecross; and Mr 
Kenneth Maclean, Kinlochdamph. 
The Faunal Area of West Ross has received very little 
attention from naturalists, while the central and southern 
portions, which are more particularly treated of in this 
paper, have been especially unfortunate in this respect, and 
hence the writers have thought it desirable to offer this slight 
contribution to their natural history. The northern section 
of the area has been more favoured. It has several excellent 
resident naturalists, whose labours are gathered together in 
Mr Dixon’s interesting “ Gairloch,” to which our readers are 
referred for much information relating to that portion of 
West Ross-shire. . 
Area under consideration.—The area to which these notes 
refer may, for convenience of description, be divided into 
four districts, named as follows :— 
(1) Dundonnell—extending from the southern boundary 
of Cromartyshire, immediately south of Glen Achall, to the 
watershed between the two Gruinard rivers, and including 
the ground drained by the streams flowing into the two 
Loch Brooms and the eastern side of Gruinard Bay. 
(2) Gairloch—the country drained by the Little Gruinard, 
Loch Maree, the head-waters of the Ewe, and the streams 
flowing into the Gairloch, and including Rudha Mor and the 
North Point—the two promontories on either side of Loch 
Ewe. 
(3) Applecross—comprising the peninsula of that name, 
together with the ground round the head of Loch Torridon, 
drained by the Kishorn, Balgy, and Torridon rivers. 
(4) Strathcarron and Lochalsh—the south-western part of 
the county, drained by the Carron, Ling, Elchaig and Shiel, 
and other streams flowing into Lochalsh. 
Physical Features—The physical configuration of West 
Ross does not favour the presence of an abundant or varied 
fauna. It is emphatically a mountainous region, and includes 
some of the wildest and most rugged scenery of the West 
Highlands. Fully two-thirds of the area has an elevation of 
1000 feet and upwards above sea-level ; fifty-six mountains 
reach a height of between 2500 and 3500 feet, twenty-seven 
