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stomach {—fide R. Walker, Scot. Nat., 1871, P- 80) ; and a very 
fine male, also in full adult plumage, was shot on the Loch of 
Forfar by Sheriff Robertson of Burnside, I think, in 1884. 
Great Crested Grebe (Podicipes cristatus, Linn.) — A male 
of the second year, in immature plumage, was shot on the Tay, 
opposite Kinfauns Castle, by Roger Davidson, Esq., Kinfauns 
Manse, on the ist of January, 1891. This is also an uncommon 
bird on the Tay, as well as in the district at large — the only one 
on the Tay that I have been able to record of late years is one 
shot opposite Errol by a punt gunner in December, 1885. This 
was likewise a male in immature plumage. As to the other parts 
of the district, a fine specimen in full plumage, a female, was shot 
by Sheriff Robertson of Burnside, on the Forfar Loch, in the 
autumn of 1887 — and several years ago, I saw a fine pair in full 
adult plumage that had recently been shot in the vicinity of 
Dunkeld. There are probably other instances which have not 
come to my knowledge. 
As it may not be generally known that both the Razorbill 
(Alca torda) and the Guillemot ( Uria troile) are occasionally 
to be seen fishing in fresh water, I may mention that Mr. 
Thomas Marshall of Stanley, a most observing ornithologist, 
tells me (in lit. 27th November, 1888), that several of these 
birds of both species had been on the water about Stanley 
and StormoQtfield for the last four weeks. There can be no 
doubt but what these were feeding on salmon parr^ which 
may have attracted them, and what almost seems to bear 
this out, is the fact of a Guillemot being shot above Seggieden 
very early on the mornhig of i6th February, 1890 — though on the 
tidal part of the river, the water there is quite fresh, and is so for 
some way down. This bird, which was an adult male in winter 
plumage, had evidently been fishing some distance up the river, as 
when seen it was swimming down with the current at a great pace 
— the season was exceptionally mild and liad been so for some 
time past, so that it must have come up fishing on its own account 
and was then returning to the estuary. The stomach contained 
merely the remains of some small fish which could not be identi- 
fied ) but that there should have been nothing found in the stomach 
in a fresh state is easily accounted for, from its not having been 
