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BIRDS. 



its breeding. I have some accounts of its doing so, but do not care 

 to accept these fully. 



A male was secured for Mr. Marshall's collection at Coal Hill, 

 estuary of Tay, by Mr. John Marshall on 2nd March 1875 ; and the 

 same gentleman succeeded in shooting another the following year — a 

 female — on the 28th March at the same place. 



LOCH RESCOBIE. 



Family PODICIPEDID-S. 

 Podicipes cristatus (L.). Great Crested Grebe. 



Formerly often spoken of as a winter visitor when Yarrell wrote 

 in his first edition : and Macgillivray somewhat earlier mentioned 

 it as "more numerous in Scotland in winter than in summer," but 

 nothing definite was said as to its breeding in the country. 



