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  BIRDS. 
  

  

  Edward 
  says: 
  — 
  'Winter 
  visitor 
  in 
  about 
  equal 
  numbers 
  with 
  

   the 
  last.' 
  Specimens 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  Banff 
  Museum 
  in 
  winter 
  plumage. 
  

   Mr. 
  George 
  Sim 
  writes 
  : 
  — 
  4 
  In 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  north-east 
  coast 
  is 
  con- 
  

   cerned, 
  there 
  are 
  1000s 
  (sic) 
  of 
  Red-throated 
  Divers 
  for 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   Black-throated 
  species. 
  In 
  fact 
  I 
  have 
  only 
  seen 
  the 
  Black-throat 
  

   a 
  few 
  times 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  twenty-eight 
  years, 
  whilst 
  Red 
  

   are 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  cast 
  up 
  on 
  the 
  beach, 
  and 
  are 
  also 
  shot, 
  all 
  along 
  

   the 
  seaboard, 
  from 
  Bervie 
  to 
  Banff.' 
  

  

  There 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  Mr. 
  George 
  Sim's 
  version 
  is 
  correct 
  as 
  

   to 
  the 
  comparative 
  numbers 
  of 
  Black- 
  and 
  Red-throated 
  birds. 
  

  

  Hinxman, 
  when 
  residing 
  at 
  Inchrory, 
  in 
  Upper 
  Glen 
  Avon, 
  in 
  

   June 
  and 
  July 
  1893, 
  informed 
  us 
  that 
  the 
  gamekeeper 
  there 
  

   (Mackenzie) 
  told 
  him 
  that 
  nine 
  or 
  ten 
  years 
  previously, 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  

   Divers 
  — 
  identified 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  party 
  then 
  at 
  Rothiemurchus 
  

   Lodge, 
  as 
  Colymbus 
  septentrionalis 
  — 
  frequented 
  Loch 
  Mhic 
  ghillie 
  

   Chaoille 
  in 
  Glen 
  Eunach 
  during 
  the 
  summer, 
  and 
  probably 
  bred 
  

   there. 
  Hinxman 
  adds 
  : 
  — 
  1 
  1 
  never 
  heard 
  before 
  of 
  any 
  Colymbi 
  

   in 
  Strathspey,' 
  and 
  we 
  may 
  add 
  — 
  neither 
  have 
  we 
  to 
  date 
  of 
  the 
  

   Appendix, 
  December 
  6, 
  1895), 
  though 
  the 
  last-mentioned 
  species 
  

   certainly 
  has 
  bred 
  still 
  farther 
  south 
  than 
  the 
  Cairngorms. 
  

  

  Family 
  PODICIPITIDJE. 
  

  

  Podicipes 
  cristatus 
  (L.). 
  Great 
  Crested 
  Grebe. 
  

  

  A 
  very 
  rare 
  bird 
  in 
  any 
  part 
  of 
  Moray. 
  Mr. 
  Jennings 
  has 
  only 
  met 
  

   with 
  a 
  solitary 
  specimen 
  on 
  the 
  Dornoch 
  Firth. 
  An 
  immature 
  

   bird 
  was 
  killed 
  on 
  the 
  Spey 
  by 
  Rev. 
  R. 
  W. 
  Duff 
  Orton 
  in 
  1851 
  

  

  (Fauna 
  of 
  Moray, 
  ed. 
  1889, 
  p. 
  54). 
  See 
  Analysis 
  wider 
  Species. 
  

  

  Podicipes 
  auritus 
  (£.). 
  Sclavonian 
  Grebe. 
  

  

  A 
  rare 
  visitor 
  to 
  our 
  north 
  coast. 
  Mr. 
  Jennings 
  remarks 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  

   an 
  uncommon 
  winter 
  visitant 
  to 
  the 
  Dornoch 
  Firth. 
  St. 
  John, 
  

   too, 
  calls 
  it 
  rare, 
  but 
  he 
  had 
  seen 
  the 
  birds 
  both 
  on 
  Loch 
  Lee, 
  

   Loch 
  Spynie, 
  and 
  the 
  Spey. 
  Mr. 
  Sim 
  of 
  Aberdeen 
  tells 
  us 
  that 
  

   a 
  Sclavonian 
  Grebe 
  was 
  killed 
  on 
  March 
  9th, 
  1881, 
  and 
  sent 
  to 
  

   him 
  from 
  the 
  parish 
  of 
  Glass. 
  Two 
  were 
  got 
  at 
  Dunphail 
  on 
  

   September 
  10th, 
  1890. 
  

  

  One 
  is 
  recorded 
  as 
  having 
  been 
  killed 
  in 
  Findhorn 
  Bay 
  in 
  

  

  