﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  103 
  

  

  extremely 
  abundant 
  in 
  the 
  Cromarty 
  Firth 
  during 
  the 
  severe 
  

   winter 
  of 
  1894-95, 
  and 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  1 
  punters 
  ' 
  made 
  very 
  heavy 
  

   shots. 
  

  

  Bernicla 
  leucopsis 
  (Bechst). 
  Barnacle 
  Goose. 
  

  

  Not 
  a 
  common 
  visitor 
  even 
  in 
  St. 
  John's 
  time. 
  One 
  was 
  shot 
  in 
  the 
  

   Beauly 
  Firth 
  in 
  February 
  1886 
  (M. 
  L.). 
  At 
  Forres 
  it 
  is 
  rare, 
  

   according 
  to 
  Brown. 
  In 
  August 
  1887 
  0. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Lee 
  saw 
  five 
  near 
  

   Forres 
  ; 
  he 
  fired 
  two 
  shots 
  at 
  them, 
  about 
  sixty 
  yards 
  off. 
  They 
  

   were 
  seen 
  again 
  next 
  day, 
  and 
  one 
  appeared 
  to 
  be 
  wounded. 
  

  

  One 
  shot 
  at 
  Carndhu, 
  Knockando, 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  at 
  

   Thurso. 
  Major 
  Chad 
  wick 
  in 
  his 
  list 
  of 
  1885 
  considers 
  it 
  as 
  of 
  rare 
  

   occurrence. 
  One, 
  a 
  male, 
  was 
  shot 
  in 
  the 
  Moray 
  Firth, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  

   in 
  the 
  Museum, 
  Edinburgh. 
  It 
  was 
  purchased 
  in 
  1881. 
  

  

  Bernicla 
  canadensis 
  (L.). 
  Canada 
  Goose. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  2nd 
  of 
  May 
  1887 
  there 
  came 
  to 
  the 
  bay 
  between 
  Burghead 
  

   and 
  the 
  Old 
  Bar 
  of 
  Findhorn 
  a 
  pack 
  of 
  Canada 
  Geese, 
  eighteen 
  in 
  

   number. 
  Two 
  were 
  shot 
  — 
  one 
  by 
  Major 
  Chadwick 
  of 
  Moy's 
  game- 
  

   keeper. 
  Brown 
  of 
  Forres 
  saw 
  t"hem 
  feeding 
  on 
  the 
  Buckie 
  loch, 
  

   and 
  also 
  near 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Findhorn, 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  

   September. 
  By 
  October 
  1st 
  only 
  five 
  were 
  remaining. 
  

  

  Cygnus 
  musicus, 
  Bechst, 
  Wild 
  Swan. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  had 
  few 
  notes 
  of 
  the 
  Wild 
  Swan 
  sent 
  us. 
  One 
  was 
  killed 
  at 
  

   Invergarry 
  in 
  February 
  1853 
  (Fa 
  una 
  of 
  Moray), 
  and 
  Captain 
  Ellice 
  

   writes 
  us 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  occasionally 
  seen 
  on 
  Loch 
  Garry, 
  probably 
  

   attracted 
  by 
  some 
  tame 
  ones 
  there, 
  when 
  the 
  weather 
  is 
  severe. 
  

   Mr. 
  Jennings 
  remarks 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  not 
  rare 
  in 
  the 
  Dornoch 
  Firth 
  

   in 
  flocks 
  of 
  from 
  ten 
  to 
  twenty, 
  and 
  in 
  Sutherland 
  they 
  occur 
  in 
  

   spring 
  on 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  lochs, 
  but 
  not 
  regularly. 
  Mr. 
  Muir 
  

   head 
  says 
  they 
  had 
  been 
  seen 
  on 
  Loch 
  Ness, 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  years 
  

   previous 
  to 
  1867. 
  

  

  Brown 
  says 
  they 
  are 
  rare 
  at 
  Forres. 
  In 
  1887, 
  O. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Leo 
  saw 
  

   some 
  arrive 
  there 
  as 
  early 
  as 
  September 
  28th. 
  St. 
  John 
  mentions 
  

   Wild 
  Swans 
  constantly 
  in 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  Moray, 
  and 
  gives 
  tho 
  loch 
  

   of 
  Spynie, 
  Lochlee, 
  and 
  some 
  fresh-water 
  lochs 
  between 
  Forres 
  and 
  

   Nairn, 
  as 
  localities 
  for 
  them. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  much 
  evidence 
  of 
  tho 
  former 
  occurrence 
  of 
  Wild 
  

   Swans, 
  both 
  historic, 
  traditionary, 
  and 
  as 
  I'videiunl 
  by 
  the 
  

  

  