1 6 The Scottish Naturalist. 
variably found a number of newly cast feathers. The birds 
were, of course, in the grey and white plumage of autumn, and 
when at rest among the granite rocks and boulders it was 
next to impossible to detect them. During a moonlight 
walk across these mountains Ptarmigan were continually 
getting up almost among my feet^ the rustle of their wings 
and the loud gur-r-r-r-r of the cocks, adding not a little to 
the eerieness of the situation. 
71. Lagopus SCOticus (Red Grouse). 
Needless to say, this favourite game-bird was abundant on all 
the moors on both sides of the valley. In the Invereshie 
deer-forest, on 19th August, two rose with Ptarmigan at an 
elevation of well over 3000 feet, and four others joined them 
from a point still higher. 
72. Tetrao tetrix (Black Grouse). 
Frequently met with from the head of Glen Feshie downwards. 
Most seen in the young fir plantation on the moor behind 
Feshie bridge. 
73. Crex prater sis (Corn-Crake). 
One seen near Kincraig on 5th August. I am told their mono- 
tonous call is a well-known sound in the valley during the 
summer evenings. 
74. Gallinula chloropus (Moor-hen). 
Common : seen about Loch Insch, Drimanlochan, Loch Pit- 
hulais, &:c. 
75. Fulica atra (Coot). 
Common on several of the lochs ; counted 90 on Loch Insch 
on 1 8th August, and over a dozen on Loch Garten on the 
28th. 
76. Charadrius pluvialis (Golden Plover). 
Two or three about Loch Insch on the 9th, and a few on a 
boggy moor on the Cairngorms on 19th A^ugust were all that 
came under my observation. 
77. -^gialitis hiaticula (Ringed Plover). 
On the night of 9th August I heard Ringed Plovers calling 
overhead. I was at the lower end of Loch Insch at the time, 
and the birds seemed to be flying up the valley. 
78. Eudromias morinellus (Dotterel). 
This most interesting bird was met with several times in small 
parties on the Cairngorms, but never under 3000 feet. Four- 
