﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

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  Mr. 
  John 
  Young 
  found 
  Dunlins 
  breeding 
  near 
  Nairn, 
  and 
  Harvie- 
  

   Brown 
  observed 
  them 
  at 
  the 
  partly 
  dried-up 
  loch 
  of 
  Buckie 
  among 
  

   the 
  sandhills. 
  At 
  Birnie, 
  upon 
  every 
  occasion 
  on 
  which 
  Harvie- 
  

   Brown 
  has 
  visited 
  that 
  locality, 
  he 
  has 
  found 
  some, 
  — 
  more 
  or 
  less. 
  

  

  Brown 
  of 
  Forres 
  records 
  it 
  as 
  common, 
  appearing 
  in 
  flocks 
  on 
  

   the 
  shore 
  from 
  September 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  spring, 
  but 
  he 
  does 
  not 
  

   take 
  any 
  notice 
  of 
  its 
  nesting 
  near 
  Forres. 
  He 
  however 
  found 
  

   it 
  breeding 
  up 
  the 
  river 
  Findhorn 
  in 
  1887, 
  in 
  which 
  year 
  the 
  

   species 
  was 
  very 
  abundant, 
  and 
  also 
  at 
  the 
  loch 
  of 
  Hatlen 
  in 
  the 
  

   parish 
  of 
  Kinloss, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  very 
  numerous 
  in 
  1894. 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  

   Backhouse, 
  junior, 
  says 
  it 
  breeds 
  high 
  up 
  among 
  the 
  western 
  

   ranges 
  of 
  the 
  Grampians 
  on 
  Carn-na-Cairn 
  and 
  Dalnaspidal, 
  and 
  

   a 
  little 
  to 
  the 
  north 
  of 
  Glas-mheal-mhor. 
  1 
  A 
  few 
  pairs 
  ' 
  — 
  Hinxman 
  

   tells 
  us 
  — 
  ' 
  breed 
  about 
  the 
  peat-flows 
  on 
  the 
  hill-tops 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  

   of 
  Glen 
  Li 
  vet 
  in 
  April 
  and 
  May.' 
  

  

  In 
  1893 
  Hinxman 
  writes: 
  'Both 
  on 
  the 
  hill-tops, 
  between 
  the 
  

   Upper 
  Cabrach 
  and 
  Blackwater, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  mosses 
  in 
  the 
  glen 
  

   about 
  Cairn-brallan, 
  I 
  never 
  remember 
  seeing 
  so 
  many 
  Dunlins.' 
  

   Hinxman 
  has 
  found 
  them 
  up 
  to 
  an 
  altitude 
  of 
  2300 
  feet, 
  and 
  this 
  

   was 
  also 
  noted 
  by 
  Harvie-Brown 
  later, 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  places. 
  

  

  In 
  1893 
  we 
  flushed 
  a 
  family 
  party 
  of 
  Dunlins 
  from 
  the 
  river- 
  

   side 
  in 
  the 
  Upper 
  Cabrach 
  on 
  the 
  27th 
  July; 
  they 
  rose 
  like 
  Jack 
  

   Snipes, 
  and 
  then, 
  collecting 
  together, 
  circled 
  upwards, 
  and 
  flew 
  

   away 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  eye 
  could 
  follow 
  their 
  flight 
  on 
  a 
  due 
  south-west 
  

   course 
  by 
  compass. 
  We 
  believe 
  these 
  birds 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  reared 
  

   among 
  the 
  mossy 
  summits 
  of 
  Carn 
  Grumach. 
  

  

  Tringa 
  minuta, 
  Leisl. 
  Little 
  Stint. 
  

  

  St. 
  John 
  remarks 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  smallest 
  and 
  rarest 
  of 
  the 
  waders, 
  

   appearing 
  but 
  seldom 
  on 
  our 
  coasts. 
  Yet 
  is 
  included 
  by 
  Edward 
  

   in 
  his 
  list, 
  and 
  also 
  by 
  Major 
  Chad 
  wick 
  (1888). 
  

  

  O. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Lee 
  remarks 
  : 
  — 
  ' 
  Many 
  seen 
  at 
  different 
  times 
  ; 
  one 
  or 
  

   two 
  at 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  August 
  ; 
  lots 
  later 
  on 
  ' 
  (1887). 
  

  

  [Tringa 
  temmincki, 
  Lis!. 
  Temminck's 
  Stint. 
  

  

  Edward 
  says: 
  — 
  Mr. 
  Taylor, 
  gamekeeper 
  to 
  the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Fife, 
  once 
  

   shot 
  a 
  specimen 
  on 
  the 
  Devcron 
  Bank 
  (by 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  presumed 
  

  

  