SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 
Of published records of the Fauna of the area, the authors 
have consulted the following, which are believed by them to 
represent all that exist, or nearly so : — 
The Tour of Dr. Richard Pococke, Lord Bishop of Ossory, through Suther- 
land in 1760. From the unpublished MS. in the British 
Museum Library, with Notes, etc., by Daniel W. Kemp (in the 
press, 1886). Harvie-Brown, by the courtesy of Mr. Kemp, 
had an opportunity of examining a proof in pages of the above 
before going to press, and at Mr. Kemp's request he added 
some foot-notes and identifications of the birds mentioned by 
Dr. Pococke. 
A Tour in Scotland. J. Pennant. 1769. 
Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides. J. Pennant. 1774. 
The Old Statistical Account of Scotland, consisting of twenty-one 8vo 
volumes, each of from 500 to 600 pages, published between 1791 
and 1797, and containing separate accounts of no less than 938 
parishes, with many references to the Faunas of these parishes, some 
of which are valuable, and others of little use. Sir John Sinclair, 
Bart., of Ulbster, and native of the county — editor of the O. S. A. 
— himself dismisses the natural history of the parish of Thurso 
thus: — "'Natural History. — Nothing remarkable occurs in this 
department " {op. cit. vol. xx. p. 540), and little attention 
evidently had been paid to the subject : four ministers only, out 
of eight parishes, who wrote for Sir John's great undertaking, 
speak of the Zoology. But a few facts of interest may neverthe- 
less be culled from these old records, and such will be found 
under the different species. 
General View of the Agriculture of Caithness. Captain John Henderson. 
181.5.1 
^ A most interesting volume, and one from which, did space permit, we would 
willingly quote more fully. 
