BIRDS. 



349 



The Black Book of Kincardineshire has it, "a ^vinte^ visitor to the 

 coast." 



A male shot in Monifieth Bay is in the collection of Mr. Marshall, 

 of Stanley, which was procured by Mr. Nelson on the 13th May 1882. 



As long ago as when Yarrell wrote his first edition, birds have 

 been recorded "in full breeding plumage '"' as late as midsummer, 

 and history has repeated itself now so often that we must always 

 carefully consider every future record before we can admit it 

 actually as a nesting species. 



There are two — male and female — in the St. Andrews Museum 

 which bear the legend, "St. Andrews Bay: Dr. Adamson, 1837." 



Colymbus arcticus, L. Black-throated Diver. 



Not uncommon. Breeding here and there in the fresh-water lochs of 

 the interior. Inclined to spread in a southerly direction, but rather 

 subjected to persecution. 



I used to know of a pair nesting not far from Pitlochry. This 

 was about the year 1871, but I have good reason to believe that it 

 has not bred there again since. But shortly after I knew of their 

 breeding a fine male was shot there, and I believe that gave the 

 deathblow to any further attempt of the remaining bird to induce a 

 partner to join it. Also there was one shot at a small loch near 

 Taymouth, which is now in the collection at the Castle (Mr. P. D. 

 Malloch, in lit, January 1879). It used to nest at a little loch near 

 Dunkeld, but I doubt there being any there now, as both of the 

 original pair were shot, and I saw them in Mr. Anderson's (fishing- 

 tackle maker) shop window in Edinburgh. The late Rev. H. A. 

 Macpherson informed me of the only remaining pair in the Pitlochry 

 district having been shot, and these are preserved in the collection 

 of Mr. Macinroy, of Lude : but, so far as he knew, they had not 

 nested there. All these accounts most probably refer to the same 

 locality, or at most two localities. 



The pair now in the Perth Museum were shot and their eggs taken 

 (for the Museum) by an ex-keeper named Macintyre in the Rannoch 

 district, of which part of the county he is or was a native. (List from 

 Mr. Rodger.) 



Millais considers the Black-throated Diver a rare visitor to the 

 Tay estuary." 



Colymbus septentrionalis, L. Red-throated Diver. 



Nowhere very common. No definite knowledge in my possession of 



