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  THE 
  VEETEBEATE 
  FAUNA 
  OF 
  "DEE." 
  

  

  shooting 
  near 
  Banchory, 
  and 
  on 
  examining 
  the 
  lot, 
  I 
  found 
  a 
  

   beautiful 
  male 
  Cirl 
  Bunting.' 
  "] 
  

  

  [Emberiza 
  hortulana, 
  Linn. 
  Ortolan 
  Bunting. 
  

  

  Two 
  are 
  reported 
  by 
  Gray 
  in 
  his 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  of 
  

   Scotland 
  as 
  having 
  been 
  obtained 
  in 
  Aberdeenshire 
  in 
  1863.] 
  

  

  Emberiza 
  schceniclus, 
  Linn. 
  Reed 
  Bunting. 
  "Ring 
  Fowl.'' 
  

   "Black-headed 
  Bunting." 
  

  

  Common, 
  and 
  breeds 
  in 
  all 
  suitable 
  localities 
  throughout 
  

   " 
  Dee." 
  

  

  Genus 
  PLECTROPHANES, 
  Meyer. 
  

  

  Plectrophanes 
  nivalis, 
  Linn. 
  Snow 
  Flake. 
  

   Snow 
  Bunting. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  visits 
  us 
  regularly 
  every 
  autumn 
  and 
  remains 
  

   far 
  into 
  spring. 
  It 
  was 
  long 
  supposed 
  that 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  

   remained 
  with 
  us 
  during 
  summer, 
  but 
  ample 
  evidence 
  has 
  

   now 
  been 
  recorded 
  of 
  their 
  doing 
  so. 
  MacGillivray 
  says 
  : 
  

   " 
  I 
  have 
  met 
  with 
  this 
  species 
  early 
  in 
  August 
  in 
  the 
  Corry 
  

   and 
  on 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  Lochnagar 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  Glas-mheal 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  

   western 
  Corry 
  of 
  Cairn 
  Toul 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  Ben-namuic- 
  

   dhui, 
  and 
  in 
  several 
  other 
  localities." 
  

  

  In 
  Good 
  Words 
  for 
  May, 
  1887, 
  appears 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   David 
  Bruce, 
  on 
  " 
  A 
  nest 
  hunt 
  among 
  the 
  Grampians," 
  the 
  

   nest 
  after 
  which 
  he 
  sought 
  being 
  the 
  Bunting, 
  and 
  his 
  

   huntiug-ground 
  was 
  " 
  a 
  dreary 
  spot 
  called 
  the 
  ' 
  Barren 
  

   Hollow,' 
  near 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  highest 
  hills 
  in 
  the 
  

   western 
  corner 
  of 
  Aberdeenshire." 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  charmingly 
  

   written 
  paper, 
  brimful 
  of 
  zoological 
  information, 
  and 
  written 
  

   in 
  a 
  highly 
  poetical 
  strain, 
  by 
  one 
  who 
  sees 
  and 
  can 
  depict 
  

   nature 
  in 
  whatever 
  aspect 
  she 
  may 
  present 
  herself 
  to 
  him. 
  

   Mr. 
  Bruce 
  failed 
  to 
  find 
  the 
  nest, 
  but 
  saw 
  the 
  birds, 
  and 
  

   was 
  in 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  their 
  nest 
  was 
  near. 
  It 
  was 
  not, 
  

   indeed, 
  until 
  1886, 
  that 
  the 
  nest 
  of 
  this 
  bird 
  was 
  proved 
  

   to 
  be 
  built 
  on 
  Scottish 
  grounds. 
  In 
  that 
  year 
  Messrs. 
  Peach 
  

   and 
  Gray 
  found 
  the 
  nest 
  and 
  young, 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  

   recorded 
  in 
  the 
  Fauna 
  of 
  Sutherland, 
  p. 
  138 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  