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PREFACE. 



I am specially indebted to Mr. John Milne, Auchenblae, 

 for his full and useful notes on the birds of his district 

 within a radius of some ten miles, and his correspondence 

 continued since the date of March 20, 1895.^ 



I have also to thank a number of correspondents for 

 kindly furnishing me with local lists and notes. Her 

 Grace the Duchess of Bedford (list of birds observed at 

 Meikleour, etc.) ; Dr. F. T. Dewar (an excellent list from the 

 Arbroath district) ; Rev. Wm. M'Connochie, the Manse, 

 Guthrie (for a list and notes of the birds of his parish) ; 

 Mr. Charles Macintosh (for daily observations made at my 

 request in excursions through his native glen in 1905).^ 



My friend Mr. J. G. Millais most kindly drew up his 

 notes upon the dispersal and distribution of the species 

 he had met with whilst he resided at Murthly Castle, 

 and "punted" after wild-fowl on the tidal Tay and coast- 

 line, and he placed them at my disposal for the purposes 

 of this volume. For these I desire to ofier him my best 

 thanks. 



To Mr. Robert Godfrey I am obliged for notes made on 

 my behalf at several localities within the area.^ 



' See further on under Descriptive Chapters, p. Ixv. I deeply regret to have to 

 announce the somewhat sudden death of Mr. John Milne at his house, Auchenblae, 

 upon the 6th of August 1906. I received the sad news from his sister by the same 

 post as I received proof of this Preface from the printers. 



2 Mr. Charles Macintosh, ex-post-runner, Inver, who is well acquainted with 

 the ornithology of Strathbraan and the district around Dunkeld. 



3 Mr. R. Godfrey stayed three weeks at Dunan and Bridge of Ericht, and his 

 friend Mr. Aird and he explored the Rannoch district from the islands of Loch 

 Luydan and the Moor of Rannoch to Kinloch Rannoch. I myself resided at the 

 Barracks, shooting and fishing on the Moor of Rannoch and the Black Wood in 

 the autumn of 1874. At that time the shooting with the Barracks were let to 

 the late Lord Mackenzie, whose guest I was. Mr. Godfrey sends me also his 

 occasional notes from other districts— Head of Loch p]arn, etc., east of Fife, etc. 



