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croak to join his sympathetic mate in casting to and fro in 

 search of some carrion on the ridge of Fasach. 



Cypsdiis apus, — Casual visitant, occasionally observed by 

 Captain Macdonald, by myself, and Mr J. Mackenzie. 



' Ca'primulgus europoeus. — Summer visitant to the south of 

 Skye ; apparently absent from Duirinish. 



Alcedo ispida. — Casual visitant, according to Mr E. Gray ; 

 but it has not occurred of late years. 



Cuculus canorus. — Summer visitant ; most obstreperous in 

 the gloaming, when the challenge of the males to the 

 "whittling" female awakes the remonstrances of the sleepy 

 thrushes. In 1882 I observed a cuckoo regularly tired out 

 by its long passage ; it spent most of two days (May 3d and 

 4th) resting on a low stake, and seemed to be recruiting. 



Strix flammea. — Eesident; no doubt nesting among the 

 rocks at Miloveig and elsewhere, as it does in Eigg. Mr T. 

 Kobertson saw one at Skeabost in the spring of 1883, and 

 three were obtained at Waternish in the spring of 1884. 

 Captain Macdonald has observed it on other occasions, and 

 Macleay has received examples from Skye. 



Asia otus. — Eesident ; breeding in the Dunvegan woods, 

 whence it strays to Waternish occasionally. Macleay has 

 received specimens from other parts of Skye. Not uncommon 

 about Bracadale. Breeds near the Ulinish shooting lodge. 



Asio accipitrinus. — Eesident, but decidedly a scarce bird in 

 Duirinish. I examined a young bird, killed on the Greshor- 

 nish shootings in 1883. 



Nyctea scandiaca. — Accidental visitant. Mr Fergus Mac- 

 Ivor informed me that he had examined a Snowy Owl killed 

 some years since in the north of Skye. Mr K. Gray states 

 that it " has been met with in Skye in several instances." 



Circus mruginosus. — Casual visitant. Mr Dumville Lees 

 informs me that a Marsh Harrier was killed in Scalpa, an 

 island on the Skye coast, by his keeper, James Macintosh, 

 some years since. 



Circus cyaneus. — Eesident, though all but exterminated in 

 Duirinish.^ Angus Nicholson, the head keeper at Dunvegan, 



1 In Ulinish Macdonald killed thirty-two Harriers, old and young, in 1870; 

 n the last ten years, 1876-86, he has only killed three altogether. 



