A fauna of the Moray basin . d the Culbin Sands [Survey of Moray, 1878, p. 174). ^ A very lucid and full account of the past and present conditions of Loch ofSpynie was published in the Elgin Courant in December 1865, and will be found re-produced in Morayshire Described, in a long foot-note on pp. 337-341, which, whiletoo long to reproduce here again, is deserving of the attention of all who desireto obtain a more thorough idea of what this famous haunt of wild-fowl was, andnow is. Morayshire Described, etc., was published in Elgin by Messrs. Russelland Watson in 1868, or, if one desires to g
A fauna of the Moray basin . d the Culbin Sands [Survey of Moray, 1878, p. 174). ^ A very lucid and full account of the past and present conditions of Loch ofSpynie was published in the Elgin Courant in December 1865, and will be found re-produced in Morayshire Described, in a long foot-note on pp. 337-341, which, whiletoo long to reproduce here again, is deserving of the attention of all who desireto obtain a more thorough idea of what this famous haunt of wild-fowl was, andnow is. Morayshire Described, etc., was published in Elgin by Messrs. Russelland Watson in 1868, or, if one desires to go still further back, past our century,minute items will be found in a volume entitled A Survey of the Province ojMoray, etc., published in Aberdeen in 1798. Or, again, if any one desires tosave himself the trouble of looking up these musty old records, a very full accounthas been given at the much later date of 1871, in the monographical volumeentitled The Parish of Spynie, by Robert Young (Elgin, 1871), pp. 5 to 120. i I i. PHYSICAL FEATURES. 77 very shallow, nowhere perhaps more than three feet in depth. Itconsists of open water interspersed with great reed-beds, theliaunts of innumerable Coots, but of fewer Water-Hens, which, asCaptain Dunbar Brander informed us on the spot (May 13th,1885), have decreased in number owing to the depredations ofthe pike. It is interspersed also with other forms of lower growthof aquatic vegetation and sedges, the special haunts of vastnumbers of Black-Headed Gulls, a few pairs of Pochards andShovellers and Little Grebes, through which Captain DunbarBranders flat-bottomed punts can easily be poled by a man sittingor standing in the stern. Water-lilies have been introduced oflate years, and are thriving, and we saw the reddish orange leavesof last year looking ghostly beneath the surface. Outside theboundaries of the present loch-area, and towards the east end, is amarshy piece of land interspersed with shallow pools of water, andrushy puddles
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