128 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



In August 1879 a single nestling was shot out of the nest 

 by Mr H. Parsons, jun. The nest, which I have visited, 

 was placed on a pillar of rock, and easily approached by a 

 long sheep track ; but the shoulder of the pillar defied ascent, 

 and as the nest could not be reached from above, the 

 feathered nestling was shot. In 1881 the old birds bred 

 about half a mile further north, but I do not think that they 

 bred there for the last two seasons, and I doubt if they bred 

 there in 1883. Formerly there was an eyrie of this Eagle 

 on the Ascrib Isles ; and the precipices of Miloveig and those 

 of Waterstein always held a pair within the recollection of 

 living men. At present they are decidedly scarce, and only 

 very few eyries are inhabited. 



AstiLT palwnharius.^Accidenta} visitant. Captain Mac- 

 donald shot a Goshawk in the month of March, he believes, 

 in 1870. It was resting on a rock at the side of a loch. 

 On dissection he found that it contained a number of lizards. 



Accipiter nisus. — Eesident at Dunvegan, but decidedly a 

 scarce bird. Bred at Dunvegan in 1885. 



Milvus ictinus. — Eesident in the south of Skye, as I learn 

 from Mr Lance Bower, but nearly extirpated. Mr Dixon 

 states that he found a kite nailed up by a keeper in 1881 

 (Seebohm, " B. B.," i., p. 75). 



c Falco candicans. — Accidental visitant. A Greenland 

 Falcon visited Waternish in the winter of 1883-84, and was 

 shot on January 3d by Captain Macdonald (who had seen a 

 similar white Falcon about thirty years previously). It 

 proved to be a female (ZooL, 1884, p. 382). 



Falco peregrinus. — Eesident ; nesting, when permitted, on 

 several inaccessible positions in one district, feeding, no 

 doubt, chiefly on Eockdoves and Alcidae, though, of seven 

 successively dissected by Captain Macdonald, five had been 

 dining on grouse. In the spring of 1884 a fine male was 

 captured near Portree, having descended into a quarry after 

 a rook which it had struck. It was sent to Captain Mac- 

 donald, but subsequently escaped from his walled garden. 



j^OTE. — Falco islanchis. — An immature bird was shot by Captain Macdonald 

 at Waternish early in March 1886, wind E. It had previously been seen 

 near Portree. 



