﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  203 
  

  

  in 
  Rothiemurchus, 
  in 
  some 
  cases 
  evidently 
  breeding, 
  the 
  majority, 
  

   however, 
  in 
  pairs 
  rising 
  wild 
  along 
  the 
  loch-shores. 
  At 
  least 
  ten 
  

   pairs 
  were 
  seen 
  at 
  one 
  place. 
  

  

  We 
  think 
  it 
  likely 
  that 
  the 
  greater 
  proportion 
  of 
  the 
  Green- 
  

   .shanks 
  seen 
  at 
  Loch 
  Morlich-side 
  are 
  not 
  breeding 
  birds, 
  but 
  

   resting 
  emigrants 
  en 
  route 
  for 
  farther 
  north 
  and 
  north-west 
  ; 
  but 
  

   that 
  some 
  were 
  nesting 
  there 
  also 
  — 
  because 
  Greenshanks 
  are 
  early 
  

   in 
  their 
  domestic 
  arrangements 
  — 
  we 
  feel 
  convinced. 
  

  

  Limosa 
  lapponica 
  (L.). 
  Bar-tailed 
  Godwit. 
  

  

  Not 
  rare 
  in 
  late 
  autumn 
  and 
  winter 
  about 
  the 
  Little 
  Ferry, 
  and 
  now 
  

   and 
  then 
  seen 
  higher 
  up 
  the 
  coast 
  about 
  Brora. 
  In 
  the 
  Dornoch 
  

   Firth 
  it 
  is 
  common 
  in 
  winter, 
  at 
  times 
  in 
  very 
  large 
  flocks 
  

   (Jennings). 
  A 
  few 
  flocks 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  in 
  the 
  Beauly 
  Firth 
  in 
  

   autumn. 
  

  

  O. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Lee 
  mentions 
  seeing 
  Godwits 
  just 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  

   Findhorn 
  on 
  August 
  28th, 
  1887, 
  and 
  we 
  ourselves 
  saw 
  a 
  flock 
  

   there 
  in 
  June 
  1891. 
  St. 
  John 
  had 
  observed 
  them 
  occasionally 
  

   about 
  Loch 
  Spynie. 
  

  

  Edward 
  includes 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  scarce 
  but 
  regular 
  autumn 
  visitant 
  

   at 
  Banff. 
  They 
  are 
  common 
  and 
  abundant, 
  however, 
  farther 
  up 
  

   the 
  Firth 
  at 
  Findhorn, 
  appearing 
  in 
  September 
  and 
  leaving 
  in 
  

   spring. 
  Harvie-Brown 
  once 
  met 
  with 
  one 
  at 
  close 
  quarters 
  in 
  

   almost 
  perfect 
  breeding 
  plumage 
  on 
  the 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  Culbin 
  Sands, 
  

   on 
  the 
  8th 
  July 
  1887. 
  

  

  Limosa 
  aegocephala 
  (L.). 
  Black-tailed 
  Godwit. 
  

  

  One 
  was 
  killed 
  at 
  Loch 
  Spynie 
  in 
  the 
  autumn 
  of 
  1878 
  by 
  Captain 
  

   Dunbar-Brander 
  (Fauna 
  of 
  Moray, 
  edition 
  1889, 
  p. 
  59). 
  Two 
  were 
  

   seen 
  on 
  the 
  shore 
  by 
  J. 
  G. 
  Millais, 
  Esq., 
  near 
  Fort 
  George, 
  in 
  

   April 
  1890. 
  Mr. 
  Millais 
  told 
  us 
  he 
  was 
  quite 
  sure 
  of 
  the 
  species. 
  

  

  Numenius 
  arquata 
  (/>.). 
  Curlew. 
  

  

  Although 
  widely 
  distributed, 
  the 
  Curlew 
  is 
  not 
  equally 
  abundant 
  

   everywhere. 
  We 
  have 
  found 
  it 
  most 
  numerous 
  in 
  the 
  breeding 
  

   season 
  on 
  the 
  Sutherland 
  flows 
  that 
  are 
  such 
  a 
  common 
  feature 
  in 
  

   that 
  county, 
  least 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  districts 
  about 
  Guisachan 
  and 
  liner 
  

  

  