﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  5 
  

  

  this, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  is 
  the 
  original 
  record 
  — 
  or 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  record 
  

   — 
  of 
  'one 
  near 
  Banff' 
  (Edward, 
  Zoologist, 
  p. 
  310, 
  June 
  1866). 
  

  

  Family 
  CORVID-E. 
  

   Pyrrhocorax 
  graculus 
  (L.). 
  Chough. 
  

  

  Booth 
  mentions 
  that 
  a 
  Chough 
  was 
  shot 
  with 
  a 
  rifle-bullet 
  in 
  Glen 
  

   Cannich 
  ; 
  it 
  was 
  said 
  that 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  they 
  frequented 
  the 
  glen, 
  

   but 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  their 
  departure 
  is 
  not 
  known. 
  

  

  Gray 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  credited 
  the 
  earlier 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  presence 
  

   of 
  the 
  Chough 
  as 
  far 
  north 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast 
  of 
  Scotland 
  as 
  Troup 
  

   Head. 
  He 
  adds, 
  however 
  : 
  — 
  ' 
  Indeed, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  questioned 
  if 
  a 
  

   single 
  Chough 
  has 
  been 
  seen 
  at 
  either 
  Troup 
  Head 
  or 
  St. 
  Abb's 
  for 
  

   the 
  last 
  ten 
  or 
  fifteen 
  years.' 
  A. 
  G. 
  More 
  gives 
  its 
  distribution 
  

   then 
  as 
  far 
  north 
  as 
  1 
  Sutherland.' 
  Sim, 
  commenting 
  upon 
  Gray's 
  

   remark, 
  says 
  : 
  — 
  ' 
  Gray 
  might 
  have 
  said 
  thirty 
  or 
  forty 
  years, 
  if, 
  

   indeed, 
  ever 
  there,' 
  an 
  opinion 
  we 
  are 
  quite 
  inclined 
  to 
  indorse. 
  

  

  Nucifraga 
  caryocatactes 
  (L.). 
  Nutcracker. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  no 
  other 
  record 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  our 
  district 
  

   than 
  the 
  one 
  that 
  was 
  killed 
  at 
  Invergarry, 
  Inverness-shire, 
  in 
  

   October 
  1868, 
  and 
  which 
  was 
  sent 
  to 
  Macleay 
  for 
  preservation 
  

   (auct. 
  W. 
  Macleay). 
  

  

  Garrulus 
  glandarius 
  (L.). 
  Jay. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  very 
  few 
  records 
  of 
  Jays 
  having 
  been 
  found 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  

   Great 
  Glen. 
  Gray, 
  in 
  his 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  of 
  Scotland, 
  says 
  that 
  

   he 
  was 
  informed 
  of 
  their 
  being 
  found 
  at 
  times 
  in 
  Glengarry 
  

   by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Mr. 
  Stewart 
  of 
  Ballachulish. 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  Craig, 
  in 
  his 
  

   Birds 
  of 
  Glen 
  Urquhart, 
  says 
  that 
  ( 
  specimens 
  shot 
  on 
  the 
  estate 
  are 
  

   to 
  be 
  seen 
  at 
  Balmacaan 
  House, 
  the 
  residence 
  of 
  the 
  proprietor, 
  the 
  

   Earl 
  of 
  Seafield.' 
  

  

  The 
  late 
  W. 
  Macleay, 
  of 
  Inverness, 
  wrote 
  us 
  : 
  — 
  ' 
  The 
  Jay 
  is 
  con- 
  

   sidered 
  a 
  rara 
  avis 
  in 
  Inverness-shire. 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  business 
  hero 
  

   over 
  twenty 
  years, 
  and, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  know, 
  only 
  three 
  specimens 
  

   have 
  been 
  got. 
  Two 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  killed 
  ten 
  years 
  ago 
  in 
  Glen 
  

   Urquhart, 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  bank 
  of 
  Loch 
  Ness. 
  (May 
  not 
  these 
  be 
  

   the 
  ones 
  referred 
  to 
  as 
  above 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Craig 
  ?) 
  The 
  third 
  was 
  

   killed 
  last 
  year 
  at 
  Grantown, 
  Strathspey. 
  I 
  never 
  heard 
  of 
  one 
  

  

  