﻿BIEDS. 
  

  

  91 
  

  

  Pitfour, 
  1849." 
  (Horn's 
  Birds 
  of 
  Buchan, 
  p. 
  238.) 
  The 
  Rev. 
  

   J. 
  Smith, 
  in 
  the 
  Zoologist, 
  p. 
  2651, 
  January, 
  1850, 
  reports 
  that 
  

   one 
  was 
  shot 
  on 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  a 
  plantation 
  near 
  Brucklay 
  

   Castle, 
  in 
  May, 
  1849, 
  and 
  says 
  it 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  previously 
  

   known 
  in 
  Scotland. 
  

  

  Three 
  were 
  shot 
  on 
  Aberdeen 
  Links 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  A. 
  

   Mitchell. 
  One 
  was 
  shot 
  at 
  Manar, 
  Donside, 
  and 
  two 
  at 
  

   Peterhead 
  on 
  May 
  14th, 
  1872, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  me. 
  

   On 
  May 
  14th, 
  1890, 
  I 
  received 
  a 
  male 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Muirhead, 
  

   Haddo 
  House. 
  Its 
  stomach 
  was 
  full 
  of 
  small 
  beetles 
  

   (weevils). 
  This 
  bird 
  was 
  very 
  fat, 
  and 
  its 
  generative 
  organs 
  

   very 
  large. 
  It 
  was 
  altogether 
  in 
  its 
  full 
  breeding 
  state. 
  The 
  

   nest, 
  however, 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  " 
  Dee." 
  

   Two 
  of 
  these 
  birds 
  were 
  seen 
  at 
  Inverugie 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Crighton 
  

   in 
  May, 
  1890. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  included 
  in 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  birds 
  in 
  the 
  N. 
  S. 
  A. 
  

   for 
  the 
  parish 
  of 
  Peterhead. 
  Referring 
  to 
  this 
  list 
  in 
  his 
  

   Birds 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  of 
  Scotland, 
  p. 
  70, 
  Gray 
  states 
  : 
  " 
  I 
  may 
  add 
  

   the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  — 
  male 
  and 
  female 
  — 
  near 
  Peterhead 
  

   previous 
  to 
  1835, 
  in 
  which 
  year 
  Mr. 
  Arbuthnot, 
  the 
  founder 
  of 
  

   the 
  Peterhead 
  Museum, 
  where 
  the 
  specimens 
  are 
  still 
  pre- 
  

   served, 
  furnished 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  local 
  birds 
  for 
  publication 
  by 
  the 
  

   compiler 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Statistical 
  Account 
  of 
  the 
  Parish 
  ' 
  ; 
  " 
  but 
  how 
  

   he 
  arrives 
  at 
  the 
  statement 
  " 
  previous 
  to 
  1835 
  " 
  he 
  does 
  not 
  

   inform 
  us. 
  One 
  was 
  killed 
  at 
  Pitfour, 
  and 
  another 
  at 
  Dun- 
  

   nottar 
  on 
  April 
  13th, 
  1898, 
  and 
  both 
  forwarded 
  to 
  me. 
  On 
  

   May 
  19th, 
  1899, 
  one 
  was 
  shot 
  by 
  James 
  Gerrard, 
  Greenmire, 
  

   Oldmeldrum, 
  who 
  also 
  sent 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  writer 
  ; 
  while 
  various 
  

   other 
  specimens 
  have 
  been 
  reported 
  to 
  him 
  from 
  several 
  parts 
  

   of 
  Aberdeenshire. 
  

  

  Section 
  OSCINES 
  LATIROSTRES. 
  

  

  Family 
  HIRUNDINIDiE. 
  

  

  Genus 
  HIRUNDO, 
  Linn. 
  

  

  Hirundo 
  rustica, 
  Linn. 
  Swallow. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  our 
  most 
  regular 
  summer 
  visitors, 
  arriving 
  about 
  

   the 
  end 
  of 
  April, 
  if 
  the 
  summer 
  is 
  fine, 
  but 
  generally 
  in 
  the 
  

   beginning 
  of 
  May, 
  and 
  dispersing 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  country. 
  

  

  