A fauna of the Tay Basin and Strathmore (1906) (14771519243)

Identifier: faunaoftaybasins00harv (find matches)

Title: A fauna of the Tay Basin & Strathmore

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916

Subjects: Zoology Birds Vertebrates

Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas

Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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re first seen inDee about eight or nine years ago (say 1884), and at present(1904) there may be some thirty or forty pairs there (aud. Mr.George Sim). In my paper last mentioned I have worked out these argumentsalready, and will now close this long article in the present place. Columba livia, Bonnat. Rock-Dove. Old correct Gaelic, Smudan, as above (see under Wood-Pigeon). Itappears evident that at some time or other a confusion existedamongst Gaelic-speaking people between Rock- and Wood-Pigeons. Fairly common on the coast. Resident. Breeds. But it ismuch more difficult now to get pure-bred birds here than formerly,as for very many years and generations they have mixed with thedovecote Pigeons, and all sorts of colours are seen. Mr. J. Milne quoted for me from a copy of the Black Book ofKincardineshire, now a very rare volume (I have since obtained a copyafter some trouble). It refers to the caves generally, and goes on tosay : The most remarkable one (cave) is named The Long Gallery,

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BIRDS. 267 and is about one and a half miles south of Stonehaven. It entersthe perpendicular face of the cliff, which is about 150 feet high,and the cave is 30 feet wide, gradually narrowing to the far end,where it also comes out in the face of the cliff. It can be traversedthrough its whole length, about 200 yards, in a boat at low water. There appeared a note in a recent number of the ZooJ. (July1905) which is justly queried by the editor, about Rock-Doves (sic)nesting in rabbit-burrows near St. Andrews and elsewhere in Fife;needless to say this is an error. Mr. Berwick says of this species: Found in the rocks nearSt. Andrews, etc., but not common. Turtur communis, Selhy. Turtle-Dove. Rare. Occasional visitant in autumn and -winter. Not of great rarity as observed by Col. Drummond Hay in theCar.e of Gowrie (Scot. Nat., vol. iii. p. 290). Marked as an occasional visitor by 1877-8. One shot, 1871, atBalmano, near Perth, by James Dow. Another shot ten yearsago (aud. Mr. P. D. Malloch,

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