BIRDS. 



US 



There is, however, a specimen in the local collection at Perth 

 Museum, and Millais also obtained a species on the tidal Tay. 



In 1886 a fine male was shot at Strathardle, on Loch Curran — 

 a small loch which lies very high on the ridge that divides Glendorley 

 from Strathardle. It was reported to me by Mr. Charles Fergusson 

 as having been killed by a friend of his, who had it stuffed. There 

 were two together, and a snap-shot brought this one down. Mr. 

 Fergusson wrote from the Gardens, Cally House, under date of 

 9th February 1888. He was at that time preparing a list of the 

 birds, ferns, and flowers of the district, etc., for publication.^ 



Millais makes note of the species in the following terms: "An 

 immature male now in my possession was captured alive on Perth 

 North Inch in November 1885. In the same month two others — fine 

 adult males— in an exhausted condition, were found on the beach at 

 Monifieth, and are also in my collection. 



Mr. W. Berwick mentions one killed in 1880 at Newport, and 

 another at Buddon Ness, both of which are in the Perth Museum. 



Order TUBINARES. 

 Family PROCELLARIIDiE. 



Procellaria pelagica, L. Storm Petrel. 



Occasional, when driven inland or to the coast by gales from seaward ; 

 but a few miles out at sea are seen at almost all seasons by the 

 fishermen who ply their avocation in the North Sea. 



Captures of examples are either made alongshore, or at inland 

 places often at long distances from the coast, and when driven in by 

 the storm. 



Col. Drummond Hay never met with it in tidal Tay, but Mr. 

 Nelson twice saw specimens there — each time after a stiff easterly 

 gale. 



One was found in Glen Tilt by the gamekeepers about 1st 

 November 1882. 



Horn records the capture of one on Loch Tay ; and one was got 

 at Johnshaven in August 1898 (D. Towns). 



While thus apparently uncommon in Tay estuary, it is often 

 abundant over the wider waters of the sister estuary of Forth, where 

 I have met with great numbers when out shooting between Grange- 

 mouth and Bo'ness. 



^ The History, Legends, and IVaditions of Strathardle. 



