6 SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 
birds belonging to Dr. Eric Sutherland Sinclair, as well as very 
full lists of Geology, Botany, and Mammalogy appear under the 
parish of Wick, from the pen of Eev. Charles Thomson (p. 129), 
and there are some good remarks upon the county of Caithness 
at p. 179. 
Wild Sports of the Highlands. Charles St. John. 1846. 
The Birds of Sutherland and Ross-shire. Milner [Zoologist, 1848, p. 2014, 
and Leeds Philos. and Lit. Soc. Annual Report for 1880-81). In 
the latter an Appendix gives " Notices of the Rarer Birds in the 
Milner Collection," from the notes of the late Sir William Milner, 
whose remarks, when quoted verbatim, are indicated by inverted 
commas. 
A Tour in Sutherland. Charles St. John. A List of the Birds of 
Sutherland is given. 1849. 
A List of Fish that have been found in the Moray Firth and in the Fresh 
Waters of the Province of Moray. Rev. George Gordon. {Zool. 
1852, pp. 3454 and 3480.) 
Fish and Grustacece of the North-East Coast of Scotland. Lieutenant 
, Dyce and George Sim. 
This principally refers to " fish found in the vicinity of Aber- 
deen," but is useful for comparative purposes. 
Notes on the Ornithology of Caithness. Messrs. Shearer and Osborne. 
{Proc. Roycd Phys. Soc. of Fdinburgh, vol. ii.) 1861. 
In vol. iii. of the above, mention is made of various rare species 
recorded as obtained in Sutherland and Caithness. 
We include species added and brought up to date of 1885 by 
W. Reid. 
Osborne, H. : his MSS., which form the basis of our Caithness 
Avi-fauna, and date up to the year 1868, when he died. 
Oil the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during the Nesting Season. 
A. G. More. (Ibis.) 1865. 
A most valuable paper ; but Messrs. Shearer and Osborne are 
still the only authorities quoted for Caithness, and Mr. 
W. Dunbar (since deceased) the only authority for Sutherland. 
Birds of the West of Scotland. R.Gray. 8vo. 1871.^ 
Since the above was written, and went to press, we have to record the 
sudden loss to us all of Mr. Robert Gray, almost on the eve of the issue of his 
second work on Scottish Ornithology. He died on the 18th February 1887. 
