. The Annals of Scottish natural history. Natural history; Natural history -- Scotland. 2O2 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY of The Lews : and all right-thinking sportsmen and naturalists cannot but admire such provision having been made; and this was done at Mr. Platt's own request. We may rest assured that the Sea Eagles were not molested, and the shepherds have strict orders concerning them. Sea Eagles are sometimes foolish enough to occupy very simple places. Such appears to have been the case only a few years ago, when a pair occupied a rock-face very easily reached. The consequence was
. The Annals of Scottish natural history. Natural history; Natural history -- Scotland. 2O2 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY of The Lews : and all right-thinking sportsmen and naturalists cannot but admire such provision having been made; and this was done at Mr. Platt's own request. We may rest assured that the Sea Eagles were not molested, and the shepherds have strict orders concerning them. Sea Eagles are sometimes foolish enough to occupy very simple places. Such appears to have been the case only a few years ago, when a pair occupied a rock-face very easily reached. The consequence was as might be expected—the young birds were taken; but the two men who took them had the impertinence to offer them for sale to the proprietor and the sporting tenant, who do the best they can to preserve SITE OF NEST ( + ) OF WHITE-TAILED EAGLE, RONEVAL, SOUTH UIST. (From a Sketch by Mr. Colin M'Vean.) It will prove satisfactory to lovers of our wild Fauna to be assured that scarcely any diminution has taken place in the number of inhabited eyries since the date of the issue of our volume. [SPARROW HAWK (Accipiter nisus], p. 87. — Although not bracketed in our "Fauna of the Outer Hebrides," I now believe it ought to be. I suspect that all records relating to this species as a Hebridean bird may prove of insufficient value, and ought to be bracketed : and this is borne out by many negative statements. Thus, Mr. M'Elfrish writes (November 1901): "During fifteen years I have been here, and with constant observation, I have never seen a Sparrow Hawk in any of the ;] GREENLAND FALCON (Fako candicans\ p. 87.—The one men- tioned by Dr. M'Rury ("Ann. Scot. Nat. ; 1894, p. 203) is in the possession of Harvie-Brown at Dunipace, and was given to him by Mrs. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these il
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