﻿ANALYSIS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MAMMALIAN 
  AND 
  AVIAN 
  FAUNA. 
  291 
  

  

  REGULAR 
  SUMMER 
  VISITANTS. 
  

  

  Ring 
  Ouzel. 
  

   Wheatear. 
  

   Whinchat. 
  

   Redstart. 
  

   Whitethroat. 
  

   Chiffchaff. 
  

   Willow 
  Wren. 
  

   Wood 
  Wren. 
  

   Sedge 
  Warbler. 
  

   Tree 
  Pipit. 
  

  

  Spotted 
  Flycatcher. 
  1 
  

  

  Swallow. 
  2 
  

  

  House 
  Martin. 
  2 
  

  

  Sand 
  Martin. 
  

  

  Swift. 
  3 
  

  

  Nightjar. 
  

  

  Cuckoo. 
  

  

  Osprey. 
  4 
  

  

  Greylag 
  Goose. 
  5 
  

  

  Quail. 
  

  

  Landrail. 
  

   Dotterel. 
  

  

  Common 
  Sandpiper. 
  

   Greenshank. 
  

   Common 
  Tern. 
  

   Arctic 
  Tern. 
  

   Lesser 
  Tern. 
  

   Lesser 
  Black-backed 
  

  

  Gull. 
  6 
  

   Kittiwake. 
  

  

  REGULAR 
  WINTER 
  VISITANTS. 
  

  

  Redwing. 
  7 
  

   Fieldfare. 
  7 
  

   Brambling. 
  8 
  

   Short-eared 
  Owl. 
  

  

  Gannet. 
  9 
  

  

  White-fronted 
  Goose. 
  10 
  

  

  Bernacle. 
  11 
  

  

  Brent 
  Goose. 
  12 
  

  

  Whooper. 
  

   Bewick's 
  Swan. 
  

   Pintail. 
  

   Scaup. 
  

  

  1 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  Young 
  informs 
  us 
  that 
  the 
  date 
  on 
  which 
  he 
  saw 
  and 
  heard 
  this 
  bird 
  

   singing 
  was 
  the 
  29th 
  May 
  1885. 
  

  

  2 
  Rare 
  in 
  East 
  Sutherland. 
  

  

  3 
  In 
  1895, 
  as 
  we 
  are 
  informed 
  by 
  Brown 
  of 
  Forres, 
  there 
  appeared 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  falling 
  

   off 
  in 
  the 
  numbers 
  of 
  the 
  Swift 
  usually 
  seen 
  in 
  Forres. 
  He 
  says 
  : 
  — 
  'They 
  have 
  left 
  

   their 
  old 
  nesting-place 
  over 
  my 
  shop- 
  window, 
  where 
  they 
  bred 
  for 
  many 
  years. 
  They 
  

   did 
  not 
  breed 
  there 
  last 
  season 
  (1894) 
  nor 
  this. 
  These 
  birds 
  have 
  been 
  getting 
  scarcer 
  

   during 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  years.' 
  At 
  Drachlaw, 
  Harvie-Brown 
  observed 
  none 
  

   up 
  to 
  the 
  16th 
  May 
  1895. 
  [Read 
  also 
  the 
  interesting 
  notes 
  in 
  Appendix, 
  by 
  W. 
  

   Laidlaw.] 
  

  

  4 
  The 
  Ospreys 
  left 
  earlier 
  in 
  1895, 
  about 
  August 
  23rd 
  (Hinxman). 
  

   6 
  Breeds 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  parts, 
  but 
  is 
  only 
  a 
  visitant 
  to 
  the 
  south. 
  

  

  6 
  A 
  few 
  may 
  now 
  and 
  then 
  remain 
  through 
  the 
  winter, 
  but 
  we 
  have 
  every 
  reason 
  

   to 
  believe 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  their 
  farthest 
  northern 
  range 
  at 
  that 
  season. 
  

  

  7 
  Both 
  Redwing 
  and 
  Fieldfare 
  are 
  absent 
  from 
  the 
  extreme 
  north 
  of 
  Moray 
  in 
  

   midwinter. 
  

  

  8 
  Common 
  in 
  autumn 
  and 
  spring, 
  rarer 
  in 
  winter. 
  

  

  9 
  Pass. 
  -• 
  towards 
  the 
  north, 
  never 
  repasses 
  to 
  the 
  south. 
  Local 
  movements 
  

   regulated 
  by 
  the 
  migrations 
  of 
  the 
  herring. 
  

  

  10 
  Local 
  in 
  appearance. 
  11 
  Rare. 
  

  

  12 
  In 
  MacGillivray's 
  time 
  frequented 
  the 
  Moray 
  Firth 
  in 
  thousands 
  (sic) 
  ; 
  v. 
  B.B., 
  

   vol. 
  i. 
  p. 
  49. 
  

  

  