. A fauna of the Tay Basin & Strathmore . d to be the first recorded specimen which had come home from the Greenlandseas. As 1 have said, I only instance it here to illustrate how such mistakes may soeasily take place. (But I am under the impression that a second one has since beenobtained by one of the Greenland whalers, which came from the same source and passedthrough my hands ; but without again seeing the specimen I cannot record it, though Ithought so at the time. Mj- identification of the first one was correct, and wasaccepted at once by Mr. Howard Saunders.) 298 BIRDS. Eudromias morine
. A fauna of the Tay Basin & Strathmore . d to be the first recorded specimen which had come home from the Greenlandseas. As 1 have said, I only instance it here to illustrate how such mistakes may soeasily take place. (But I am under the impression that a second one has since beenobtained by one of the Greenland whalers, which came from the same source and passedthrough my hands ; but without again seeing the specimen I cannot record it, though Ithought so at the time. Mj- identification of the first one was correct, and wasaccepted at once by Mr. Howard Saunders.) 298 BIRDS. Eudromias morinellus {L,). Dotterel. Old Gaelic name, Amadan mointich, The fool of the moss. Not uncommon, though supposed to be not nearly so abundantas formerly. Summer and passing migrant at intermediate restingplaces in April, and again in August on their way to and from theirnesting haunts in the higher hills. There are several mentions of it in the old Statistical Account. Thus,in the parish of Carmyllie (Forfar), the Eev. Patrick Bryce says:. DOTTEREL ON NEST. C. Kearton. The Dotterels, birds of passage, alight on the rising grounds aboutthe beginning of A]3ril, continue here about three weeks, remove to theGrampian Hills about twelve miles to the northward, and revisit thisparish about the beginning of August, and after abiding here aboutthree weeks, they fly off to the southward, and are not seen againtill the 1st of April following. They were said then also to nest in the parish of Inverarity BIRDS. 299 (Forfar), on the authority of the Rev. John Webster, who says : They have become much rarer since the country was improved (loc. cit., vol. vi. p. 227). And the Dotterel is also mentioned asfrequenting localities in Monievaird, Struaii, and Weem in Perth. In the north-east it is marked Rare Visitor, and probablybreeds in the higher hills. Prior to the date of 1870, I was informed that a few couple wereusually shot on the Drumouchter gi^ounds by the sportsmen inAugust; and the kee
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