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BIRDS. 



in 1903, and did not return to Loch an Eilean in 1904." Mr. Millais 

 also refers to the Loch Ordie birds, and adds: "Atholl Macgregor 

 knows all about it." "They used to breed also at one of the other 

 lochs," not however within the present area. 



Millais also informs me that he saw an Osprey's remains hanging 

 up on a keeper's hoarding on Kinnaird about the years 1883 or 1884. 



I have been informed that the Osprey is an occasional visitor 

 to the north of Fife, but I cannot say that I have succeeded in obtain- 

 ing any actual records to date of going to press. 



Note. — As an appropriate conclusion to this article on the Osprey s 

 of Tay and of Scotland, I reproduce here a photograph of an Osprey's 

 nest built upon a cart-wheel which had been firmly fixed upon the 

 summit of a high pole, and which shows most suggestively how some 

 of our Highland lairds who possess Osprey-haunted areas might 

 encourage the return of these harmless and ornamental raptors. I 

 desire to pointedly express my grateful thanks to Mr. Eeginald 

 Heber Howe, of Concord, Mass., LT.S.A., for putting it in my power to 

 give this illustration; and I have also to thank my good friend 

 Mr. William Brewster, of Cambridge, Mass., for a series of other 

 photographs of Ospreys' nests on telegraph and telephone poles, in 

 close proximity to houses, all as at the present day existing in 

 Long Island, New York, etc. 



In the same way, in Holland, tall posts are erected with cart-wheels 

 on top for the accommodation of the almost domesticated Storks 

 — of which facts I also possess evidence in photographs. 



Perhaps Ospreys might even yet (a.d. 1906) be induced to return 

 to Loch Ordie if some such inducement were held out to them, 

 replacing the spruce-tree so ruthlessly destroyed. May I be allowed 

 to suggest that the hint be taken ? 



Order STEGANOPODES. 

 Family PELECANIDiE. 



Phalacrocorax carbo {L.). Common Cormorant. 



The Great Cormorant was known to Don as frequenting the Loch of 

 Forfar, and he relates how individuals of the species sat upon the 

 stakes driven into the loch connected with the dragging of marl, and 

 that for hours at a time. 



These birds are nowhere numerous as compared with other parts 



