A VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE 



MORAY BASIN. 



WATERSHEDS. 



We now proceed, upon the plan hitherto carried out in previous 

 volumes of our faunal series, to treat of the watersheds or 

 boundary lines of our area. If sometimes unequal treatment of 

 diflerent sections appears, we desire it to be understood that certain 

 of these are merely glanced at, because other opportunities are 

 likely to occur, during the progress of the series, for completer 

 surveys. This remark especially applies to the southern boundary 

 of the Cairngorm watersheds, particularly those portions which 

 march with Dee, which area is being undertaken by Mr. George 

 Sim, of Aberdeen. We desire in this place to record our thanks 

 to our friend, Mr. Colin Phillip, for his able contributions both as 

 regards text and illustrations to our present work. 



I. NORTHERN AND NORTH-WESTERN BOUNDARY 

 FROM THE ORD TO THE CROMALT HILLS, 

 EMBRACING PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF 

 SUTHERLAND AND CROMARTY. 



Although part of this watershed has been described in a 

 former volume {Fauna of SutJurland, etc.), still there are other 

 portions that have not been touched upon. To make the whole 

 boundary line of the Moray area, therefore, entire and continuous, 

 and our present faunal area the more perfect, we, at the risk of 

 some repetition, have decided to mark out the whole of the 

 northern and north-western watershed, which lies almost wholly 

 in Sutherland, and the rest in West Cromarty. And this we do 

 the more readily as the volume just referred to has been for some 



