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BIRDS. 



seen up Glen Ogle, according to Mr. Godfrey's observations during 

 two 3^ears' visits paid to that neighbourhood. 



Otherwise within the area their numbers vary, but they are 

 seldom to be seen in any great abundance as compared with other 

 parts. 



Personally, I met with quite as great a scarcity in its numbers all 

 through Tay, but they are commoner along the strath of Allan 

 Water (Forth), and again eastward of the watershed between that 

 stream and the tributaries of the Earn ; and I met with a good many 

 even on the higher ground, between that and the first foothills. 

 I found them also not uncommon on the barer grassy slopes above 

 Loch Tay, on the north side, i.e. above the timber belt, and out upon 

 the grazings below the heather ground. But it proved to be rarer 

 — so far as I could see — up Glen Artney ; nor do I recollect seeing 

 any considerable number along the agricultural ground between the 

 Sma' Glen and Methven. And we have the evidence of Mr. Charles 

 Mackintosh of the comparatively small numbers he saw during a four 

 days' survey of Strathbraan (ante, Introduction). 



Eastwards they are more abundant along the Vale of Strathmore 

 and through the lower slopes and haughs of Forfar and Kincardine. 



[Alauda arborea, L. Woodlark. 



Of doubtful occurrence. 



Don mentions it with the sole remark : " In the woods near Forfar." 

 And Don says nothing about the occurrence of the Tree-Pipit. Mr. Nichol 

 Simpson merely quotes, taking, I presume, Don for his authority. Needless to 

 add, such will not meet the requirements of up-to-date ornithologists. I do 

 not mean to say that Don's omission of the Tree-Pipit from his list is of great 

 significance, as it is more than hkely that neither the Woodlark nor the Tree- 

 Pipit were at that time present any more than the former is present now. 

 Dr. Dewar dismisses it as " erroneously recorded,'" and it is omitted from all 

 other lists I have received.] 



Otocorys alpestris (L.). Shore-Lark. 

 Of rare occurrence. 



Dr. Dewar rightly dismisses it thus : " Not found," i.e. in his 

 district, between Montrose and the mouth of the Tay. 



But upon the south side. Col. Wardlaw Ramsay ensured its record 

 by sending one for exhibition to the Glasgow Natural History Society, 

 which was procured at St. Andrews on 1st January 1870 (Proc. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Glas., 1870, vol. ii. p. 10). This I believe is now deposited in 

 the collection at the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh (now, 

 in 1904, designated the Royal Scottish Museum). 



