﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  135 
  

  

  Genus 
  PANDION, 
  Savigny. 
  

   Pandion 
  haliaetus, 
  Linn. 
  Osprey. 
  

  

  A 
  rare 
  species 
  of 
  uncertain 
  appearance 
  within 
  " 
  Dee." 
  

   One 
  — 
  a 
  male 
  — 
  was 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  writer 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Sir 
  Thomas 
  

   Gladstone 
  of 
  Fasque, 
  May 
  1st, 
  1867 
  ; 
  another 
  from 
  Mony- 
  

   musk, 
  June 
  21st 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  third 
  — 
  a 
  female 
  — 
  from 
  Peterhead, 
  

   September 
  27th 
  ; 
  all 
  three 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  year. 
  In 
  May, 
  1881, 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  was 
  killed 
  near 
  Fraserburgh 
  ; 
  and 
  two 
  during 
  the 
  

   same 
  year 
  were 
  killed 
  at 
  Dunecht. 
  In 
  1886, 
  August 
  30th, 
  one 
  

   was 
  forwarded 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Sir 
  Francis 
  Grant, 
  Bart., 
  of 
  

   Monymusk. 
  On 
  June 
  12th, 
  1889, 
  a 
  female 
  was 
  killed 
  near 
  

   Aberdeen, 
  and 
  also 
  passed 
  through 
  my 
  hands. 
  On 
  June 
  18th, 
  

   1890, 
  one 
  was 
  killed 
  at 
  Haddo 
  House 
  ; 
  and 
  one 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  

   collection 
  at 
  Brucklay 
  Castle. 
  One 
  was 
  shot 
  by 
  the 
  game- 
  

   keeper 
  at 
  Knockespock, 
  parish 
  of 
  Tullynessle, 
  May 
  22nd, 
  1899. 
  

  

  Although 
  fish 
  is 
  the 
  usual 
  food 
  of 
  the 
  Osprey, 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  

   disdain 
  such 
  fare 
  as 
  the 
  humble 
  beetle 
  and 
  similar 
  " 
  creeping 
  

   things," 
  as 
  the 
  contents 
  of 
  the 
  stomachs 
  of 
  the 
  above- 
  

   mentioned 
  examples 
  testify. 
  This 
  species 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  

   known 
  to 
  breed 
  within 
  "Dee," 
  although 
  it 
  does 
  so 
  sparingly 
  

   in 
  the 
  adjoining 
  district 
  of 
  " 
  Moray." 
  

  

  A 
  male 
  was 
  shot 
  at 
  the 
  Loch 
  of 
  Strathbeg, 
  September 
  15th, 
  

   1902, 
  and 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  possession 
  of 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  Hay, 
  Aberdeen. 
  

  

  Order 
  STEGANOPODES. 
  

  

  Family 
  PELECANIDiE. 
  

  

  Genus 
  PHALACROCORAX, 
  Bnsson. 
  

  

  Phalacrocorax 
  carbo, 
  Linn. 
  Cormorant. 
  

  

  This 
  species, 
  a 
  common 
  one 
  all 
  along 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  - 
  

   " 
  Dee," 
  breeds 
  sparingly 
  on 
  the 
  rocks 
  there, 
  and 
  finds 
  ample 
  

   food 
  amongst 
  the 
  shoals 
  of 
  fish 
  that 
  swim 
  through 
  the 
  

   adjoining 
  sea. 
  At 
  times 
  this 
  voracious 
  feeder 
  seems 
  to 
  want 
  

   a 
  change 
  of 
  scene 
  and 
  food, 
  and 
  betakes 
  itself 
  to 
  the 
  rivers 
  

  

  