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  BIRDS. 
  

  

  Phitiulais 
  — 
  and 
  far 
  up 
  amongst 
  the 
  upper 
  haughs 
  of 
  Badenoch, 
  

   and 
  certain 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Monadhliath 
  mountains, 
  it 
  is 
  quite 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  in 
  the 
  breeding 
  season, 
  even 
  to 
  some 
  extent 
  nesting 
  by 
  the 
  

   shores 
  of 
  Lochandorb, 
  as 
  it 
  certainly 
  does 
  around 
  Spynie, 
  on 
  the 
  

   moors 
  above 
  the 
  Deveron, 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  Isla 
  and 
  the 
  moors 
  of 
  

   Keith 
  and 
  Auchluncart. 
  It 
  is 
  very 
  generally 
  dispersed 
  over 
  Lower 
  

   Banffshire, 
  but 
  is 
  rarer 
  by 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  woodland 
  lakes, 
  like 
  those 
  

   of 
  Rothiemurchus, 
  Abernethy, 
  or 
  the 
  wood-encircled 
  Lochnabo. 
  

  

  Brown 
  of 
  Forres 
  mentions 
  that 
  a 
  yellow 
  Snipe 
  with 
  white 
  quills 
  

   and 
  light 
  brown 
  markings 
  was 
  shot 
  at 
  Westerton, 
  Pluscarden, 
  on 
  

   Sept. 
  14th, 
  1894. 
  

  

  Gallinago 
  gallinula 
  (L.). 
  Jack 
  Snipe. 
  

  

  Rarer 
  than 
  the 
  Common 
  Snipe, 
  and 
  only 
  a 
  winter 
  visitant 
  over 
  the 
  

   whole 
  of 
  our 
  area. 
  

  

  [Macrorhamphus 
  griseus 
  (Gmel). 
  Red-breasted 
  Snipe. 
  

  

  One 
  is 
  recorded 
  from 
  the 
  sands 
  near 
  Banff 
  by 
  Edward, 
  26th 
  Sept. 
  

   1858 
  (Zool, 
  1858, 
  p. 
  6269), 
  but 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  handle 
  the 
  bird.] 
  

  

  Tringa 
  alpina, 
  L. 
  Dunlin. 
  

  

  Local 
  Name. 
  — 
  Dorbie. 
  

  

  The 
  Dunlin 
  would 
  only 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  even 
  fairly 
  abundant 
  in 
  one 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  north 
  of 
  our 
  present 
  area, 
  viz., 
  on 
  the 
  wet 
  flows 
  of 
  

   Sutherlandshire. 
  Elsewhere 
  it 
  occurs 
  in 
  scattered 
  pairs, 
  as 
  we 
  

   noticed 
  was 
  the 
  case 
  on 
  the 
  hills 
  about 
  Invergarry. 
  They 
  come 
  

   down 
  to 
  the 
  shore 
  about 
  August, 
  and 
  in 
  certain 
  places 
  gather 
  into 
  

   large 
  flocks. 
  

  

  Booth 
  obtained 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  Dunlin 
  near 
  the 
  Fendam, 
  

   East 
  Ross-shire, 
  in 
  June, 
  and 
  Sheriff 
  Mackenzie 
  records 
  it 
  as 
  

   breeding 
  near 
  Dornoch. 
  

  

  South 
  of 
  the 
  Ness, 
  Kirkhill 
  again 
  stands 
  out 
  as 
  a 
  favoured 
  

   locality 
  (i.e. 
  favoured 
  by 
  the 
  O.S.A. 
  recorder!). 
  Edward 
  says, 
  'a 
  

   few 
  breed,' 
  and 
  he 
  speaks 
  of 
  large 
  flocks 
  in 
  autumn. 
  He 
  also 
  

   mentions 
  the 
  fact 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  race 
  having 
  the 
  shorter 
  bills. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  J. 
  O. 
  Wilson 
  does 
  not 
  feel 
  certain 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  seen 
  it 
  in 
  

   the 
  Huntly 
  district, 
  but 
  Hinxman 
  observed 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  Ladder 
  Hills 
  

   in 
  May 
  1887. 
  

  

  