860 The Zoologist — August, 1867. 



and other shell-fish were strewed all over the islands of Badcall Bay, 

 being the " twelve basketsful " left over from many an oystercatcher's 

 feast. 



Tuesday, June 18. — Left Innisnadamph and slept at Bonar Bridge 

 (thirty-eight miles). Mr. Jesse remained behind me at the former 

 place to have some fishing. I visited, about ten o'clock at night, Loch 

 Migdale, and took a score or so of blackheaded gull's eggs and a dozen 

 tern's (arctic or common ? I had no gun to shoot a specimen with). 

 One of the gull's eggs was pale blue without marks. 



Wednesday, June 18. — Left Bonar Bridge at 6.15 a.m. by train and 

 arrived at home about 9 o'clock p.m. 



I will now give a list of the species of birds which we noticed in 

 May and June in West Sutherland, and also will include in that list 

 any others that we had reliable authority for, as breeding or visiting 

 the county. 



Golden Eagle. — Still breeds in different localities, but none seen 

 by us. 



Sea Eagle. — Still not uncommou ; saw one in Glen Coul in August, 

 1866; heard of more than one eyrie. 

 [Osprey— Is now, I believe, extinct in the county.) 

 Peregrine. — Common. 



Merlin— Next to the kestrel, the commonest hawk in West 

 Sutherland. 



Kestrel. — Very abundant. 



Sparrowhawk. — Not known in the west, but common around Rose- 

 hall and in the east. 



Buzzard. — Still plentiful ; wc saw several pairs of birds this season, 

 and knew of some four or live breeding-places. 



Hen Harrier. — Common ; are always to be found about the same 

 hill-side every season. 



{Lou geared Owl.— Is found, I believe, not uncommonly about the 

 shores of Loch Migdale in the east, but is unknown in the west. 

 None observed by us, in either west or cast.) 



Barn O/cl. — I have seen more than one on the shores of the Assynt 

 Lochs, where they select an old hooded crow's nest to deposit their 

 eggs in. They are not, however, by any means plentiful. 



