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  BIRDS. 
  

  

  Brown 
  says 
  it 
  arrives 
  in 
  May, 
  and 
  leaves 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  

   Forres 
  in 
  September. 
  We 
  met 
  with 
  them 
  also 
  high 
  up 
  the 
  Find- 
  

   horn 
  above 
  Tomatin, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  Dulnan 
  above 
  Carr 
  Bridge, 
  in 
  

   July 
  1891. 
  Also, 
  in 
  1892, 
  some 
  pairs 
  were 
  found 
  far 
  up 
  Glenlivet 
  

   under 
  the 
  shadow 
  of 
  The 
  Bochel, 
  at 
  Blye, 
  and 
  even 
  higher 
  up 
  

   towards 
  the 
  Cams 
  and 
  sources 
  of 
  Livet, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  Deveron 
  above 
  

   Beldornie. 
  

  

  Sterna 
  macrura, 
  Naum. 
  Arctic 
  Tern. 
  

  

  St. 
  John 
  remarks 
  that 
  the 
  Arctic 
  Tern 
  is 
  rarer 
  than 
  the 
  Common 
  

   Tern, 
  and 
  is 
  more 
  given 
  to 
  breeding 
  inland 
  than 
  the 
  latter 
  

  

  species 
  (sic). 
  1 
  

  

  North 
  of 
  the 
  Ness 
  the 
  two 
  largest 
  colonies 
  of 
  this 
  Tern 
  known 
  

   to 
  us 
  are 
  on 
  the 
  Sutherland 
  coast, 
  the 
  largest 
  perhaps 
  being 
  near 
  

   the 
  Little 
  Ferry, 
  on 
  the 
  gravelly 
  beaches 
  that 
  lie 
  behind 
  the 
  banks 
  

   of 
  sand 
  and 
  bent. 
  

  

  Edward 
  says 
  : 
  — 
  ' 
  Annual 
  visitant, 
  generally 
  in 
  autumn. 
  Not 
  

   known 
  to 
  breed 
  within 
  the 
  area 
  of 
  Deveron 
  valley, 
  but 
  known 
  to 
  

   do 
  so 
  farther 
  to 
  the 
  westward.' 
  

  

  The 
  Arctic 
  Tern 
  is 
  certainly 
  less 
  generally 
  distributed 
  in 
  the 
  

   Moray 
  area 
  than 
  the 
  Common 
  Tern, 
  but, 
  as 
  elsewhere, 
  the 
  popu- 
  

   lation 
  of 
  Terns 
  — 
  Arctic 
  or 
  Common 
  — 
  is 
  often 
  subject 
  to 
  strange 
  

   fluctuations. 
  0. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Lee 
  found 
  only 
  about 
  nine 
  pairs 
  nesting 
  at 
  

   the 
  Old 
  Bar 
  of 
  Findhorn 
  in 
  June 
  1887. 
  Brown 
  characterises 
  them 
  

   as 
  very 
  common, 
  arriving 
  in 
  May 
  and 
  departing 
  in 
  September, 
  

   but 
  he 
  adds, 
  ' 
  not 
  so 
  abundant 
  as 
  the 
  Common.' 
  Mr. 
  Mackessack 
  

   finds 
  a 
  few 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Findhorn 
  among 
  gravelly 
  ridges 
  

   thrown 
  up 
  by 
  the 
  old 
  tide-wash 
  near 
  the 
  sandhills 
  which 
  fringe 
  

   Burghead 
  Bay. 
  Take 
  the 
  whole 
  coast 
  of 
  the 
  Moray 
  Firth, 
  and 
  

   there 
  are 
  really 
  very 
  few 
  localities 
  which 
  offer 
  likely 
  holding- 
  

   ground 
  for 
  this 
  species, 
  but 
  abundant 
  sites 
  for 
  the 
  allied 
  form. 
  

   During 
  all 
  his 
  visits 
  to 
  Culbin 
  Sands, 
  and 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  coast, 
  

   Harvie-Brown 
  has 
  never 
  seen 
  the 
  Arctic 
  Tern 
  in 
  any 
  quantity, 
  

   and 
  only 
  in 
  numbers 
  quite 
  out 
  of 
  all 
  proportion 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  

   Common 
  Tern. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Millais 
  and 
  Buckley 
  visited 
  the 
  Old 
  Bar 
  of 
  the 
  Findhorn 
  

  

  1 
  If 
  this 
  was 
  indeed 
  the 
  case 
  in 
  St. 
  John's 
  time, 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  species 
  have 
  

   entirely 
  changed. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  Common 
  Tern 
  which 
  most 
  frequently 
  breeds 
  inland, 
  and 
  

   the 
  Arctic 
  which 
  principally 
  nestles 
  by 
  the 
  sea. 
  

  

  