BIRDS. 



have been considered as only of rare occurrence on the Forfarshire 

 coast, and was spoken of as such by Mr. W. A. Brown, who records 

 a young male about six miles below Dundee {Annals Scot. Nat. Hist.y 

 vol. i. p. 14, 1892). 



By 1894 it was recorded as nesting in Fife (? Forth) (Annals 

 Scot. Nat. Hist., by Mr. Allan Briggs, 1894, p. 18). 



By 1902 my friend Mr. Corstorphine, whose residence is upon 

 the banks of Loch Lindores, told me viva voce, June 1902, that no 

 fewer than seven pairs of these birds nested there that year ; but of 

 all the broods hatched off only three young escaped from the savage 

 attacks of the pike, of which vermin that loch is full. Again, in 

 1904, Mr. Corstorphine told me (in lit.), in reply to my questions: 

 "Yes : the Great Crested Grebes still breed at Loch Lindores, and 

 are increasing in numbers yearly."' He again speaks of seven pairs on 

 the loch, and another pair on a small weedy loch west of that, called 

 the Black Loch. At the same time Mr. Corstorphine kindly sent me 

 several nice photographs of Loch Lindores, and asked me to visit him 

 if I could manage it in the summer of 1905. 



There are many other localities now where these handsome birds 

 nest regularly, and indeed they have become so common as scarcely 

 to require parochial relief any longer, and I think might almost be 

 struck off the paupers' roll. 



Amongst other nesting places may be mentioned Drummond 

 Castle Loch. 



I visited Loch Lindores in May 1905, and whilst Mr. Xorrie was 

 engaged in taking views of the loch and island and the reed-beds, I 

 counted four pairs swimming on the surface, besides other water-fowl 

 (see also introductory chapters). Later, I was indebted to Mr. 

 Corstorphine for the information that seven pairs were nesting there 

 again in 1906 (in lit.). 



I visited Loch Rescobie again in 1905, and I saw the birds at the 

 same place, and Mr. Norrie took the photograph which is reproduced 

 on page 350, ante. 



Mr. Chas. Mackintosh tells me of another new locality having 

 been occupied in the Dunkeld district, where these birds bred for the 

 first time in 1905, and a photograph was taken of the nest. 



icipes auritus (L.). Sclavonian Grebe. 



Uncertain and occasional ; so reported by Col. Drummond Hay in 

 1880. 



Mr. Towns, late naturalist at Montrose, reported to me that one 



