﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  after 
  fish 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  them 
  in 
  place 
  of 
  rabbits 
  by 
  my 
  advice. 
  At 
  

   that 
  time 
  another 
  pair 
  of 
  Ospreys 
  nested 
  annually 
  at 
  a 
  shooting- 
  

   lodge 
  ten 
  miles 
  from 
  Guisachan 
  House. 
  I 
  sent 
  the 
  young 
  birds 
  

   from 
  here 
  one 
  season 
  to 
  the 
  " 
  Zoo," 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  still 
  alive. 
  

   Wolf 
  made 
  a 
  drawing 
  of 
  the 
  young 
  birds, 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  at 
  

   Guisachan' 
  (in 
  lit. 
  March 
  30th, 
  1892). 
  

  

  We 
  saw 
  the 
  tree 
  mentioned 
  above 
  in 
  1892. 
  At 
  the 
  present 
  

   time, 
  of 
  course, 
  there 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  stick 
  of 
  this 
  nest 
  to 
  be 
  seen, 
  but 
  

   the 
  tree 
  is 
  a 
  strong 
  healthy 
  one, 
  and 
  all 
  its 
  branches 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  

   alive. 
  We 
  were 
  informed 
  that 
  a 
  bird 
  is 
  still 
  occasionally 
  seen 
  in 
  

   the 
  district, 
  probably 
  a 
  straggler 
  from 
  another 
  glen. 
  

  

  In 
  another 
  letter 
  from 
  the 
  late 
  Lord 
  Tweedmouth, 
  dated 
  

   February 
  2nd, 
  1893, 
  he 
  wrote 
  that 
  'the 
  parent 
  birds 
  continued 
  to 
  

   occupy 
  the 
  nest 
  and 
  rear 
  their 
  young 
  for 
  some 
  years 
  afterwards 
  ' 
  

   (i.e. 
  after 
  he 
  had 
  ceased 
  taking 
  them 
  for 
  Lord 
  Hill), 
  and 
  that 
  

   ' 
  there 
  were 
  two 
  pairs 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  date 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity.' 
  

  

  At 
  Loch 
  , 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  part 
  of 
  Inverness-shire, 
  a 
  pair 
  

  

  of 
  Ospreys 
  were 
  known 
  to 
  breed 
  for 
  fourteen 
  years 
  in 
  succes- 
  

   sion, 
  but 
  this 
  was 
  some 
  time 
  previous 
  to 
  1892. 
  In 
  1890 
  and 
  

   1894 
  only 
  a 
  single 
  bird 
  — 
  a 
  female 
  — 
  was 
  seen. 
  Before 
  this 
  they 
  

   never 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  molested, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  we 
  could 
  ascertain 
  

   They 
  were, 
  however, 
  frightened 
  away, 
  as 
  the 
  Ospreys 
  bred 
  on 
  an 
  

   island 
  in 
  a 
  loch 
  in 
  which 
  was 
  a 
  heronry, 
  and 
  the 
  lessee 
  gave 
  orders 
  

   that 
  the 
  herons 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  destroyed. 
  This 
  was 
  carried 
  out 
  by 
  

   the 
  keepers, 
  and 
  the 
  mere 
  presence 
  of 
  man 
  there, 
  let 
  alone 
  the 
  

   constant 
  firing 
  off 
  of 
  guns, 
  proved 
  quite 
  sufficient 
  to 
  drive 
  the 
  

   Ospreys 
  away. 
  With 
  reference 
  to 
  this 
  same 
  locality, 
  in 
  1891, 
  the 
  

   Osprey 
  built 
  a 
  nest 
  on 
  the 
  single 
  small 
  tree 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  small 
  island, 
  

   but 
  in 
  1893 
  there 
  was 
  not 
  a 
  stick 
  to 
  be 
  seen. 
  Even 
  where 
  un- 
  

   disturbed, 
  we 
  were 
  told 
  the 
  birds 
  never 
  increased. 
  

  

  Ospreys 
  are 
  still 
  occasionally 
  seen 
  on 
  a 
  loch 
  on 
  the 
  water- 
  

   system 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Glen, 
  and 
  a 
  pair 
  bred 
  there 
  in 
  1883 
  or 
  1884. 
  

   The 
  eggs 
  were 
  taken, 
  however 
  ; 
  and 
  this 
  being 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  this 
  

   site 
  was 
  ever 
  occupied, 
  the 
  birds 
  have 
  not 
  since 
  renewed 
  the 
  

   attempt. 
  Until 
  Sutherland 
  is 
  reached, 
  a 
  loch 
  in 
  the 
  north 
  of 
  

   Ross-shire 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  their 
  northernmost 
  locality. 
  

  

  From 
  information 
  placed 
  at 
  our 
  disposal 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Heneage-Cocks, 
  

   it 
  is 
  satisfactory 
  to 
  know 
  that, 
  as 
  late 
  as 
  1893, 
  there 
  was 
  one 
  

   occupied 
  nest 
  in 
  a 
  western 
  locality; 
  two 
  as 
  late 
  as 
  1892 
  ; 
  one 
  other 
  

  

  