OCCASIONAL NOTES. 883 
a pair of young birds of this species last summer on one small island. The 
Redbreasted Merganser and the Wild Duck also nest on the shores of the 
Loch. On the moors I have seen the Golden Plover, Peewit, Curlew, 
Dunlin, and in rocky places the Ring Ouzel, which breeds here, making 
its nest sometimes on the ground, as does the Blackbird. On all the 
mountain streams the Dipper is numerous, and on the ridges of Oreag 
Meaghaidh (pronounced “ Maige”’) I last year saw a Dotterel, Charadrius 
morinellus, with young ones, one of which I caught, but it was so extremely 
beautiful that I could not find it in my heart to kill it, although a specimen 
would have been worth securing. The first time I ascended this grand moun- 
tain (about 3700 feet above the sea), on the summit, a Sea Eagle, Haliaétus 
albicilla, flew past me, and in following to see where it went I found the 
most remarkable rock I know of, where the nest then was; but two or three 
years since some one’shot the female bird, and since then there has been 
no nest. The rock is, at a guess, 1000 feet high, rising from the bottom 
of the gorge called Corry Arder, 100 feet wide at the part joining the 
mountain and 30 feet wide at the part farthest from the mountain. It juts 
out into the gorge perhaps 500 feet. A more secure place for an Hagle’s 
eyrie could scarcely be found. A little to the west of it is a rock face, 
about the same height, and a quarter of a mile long, nearly perpendicular, 
which forms the head of the corry, and between these rocks the snow drifts 
to a great depth, and the stream from the top finds its way down to Loch 
Arder under the snow, forming an archway down which a man may 
creep to the bottom. At the base of the rock is Loch Arder, a small 
lake swarming with trout. My son and I one day caught six dozen 
with artificial flies in about two hours, pulling them out frequently three 
at atime. Between this mountain and Ben Tulloch runs a stream called 
_ the Altooma, in which the Dipper delights to sport, and before it reaches 
the coach-road from Fort William to Kingussie it makes three magnificent 
falls, the lower one being nearly equal in beauty to the celebrated falls of 
Foyers. These wonders are not mentioned in any guide-book, and few if 
any tourists ever visit them. ‘The Raven and the Hooded Crow breed on 
Oreag Meaghaidh, and the Heron may be seen on all the lakes in and 
near the Glen. Having spent only two or three weeks each summer for 
several years in this Glen since 1866, I may not have noticed all the birds 
that frequent it, but the absence of the House Sparrow is very remarkable. 
I feel sure a species of Owl lives near my sugaring-ground, for several times 
when out moth-hunting my hair has been made to stand on end by an 
unearthly noise which nothing but an Owl could have made.—NicHoLas 
Cooxe (Gorsey Hey, Liscard, near Birkenhead). 
OccuRRENCE oF THE Stock Dove 1n IRELAnv.—I have to report the 
occurrence here of the Stock Dove, a bird of this year beginning its first 
moult having been shot here,—on the borders of Armagh and Louth,—ou 
