Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

202 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
locality.
At St. Cyrus
I have counted no fewer than ten
examples in a short walk on the sea border, all more or less
in an advanced state of decomposition.
BLACK GUILLEMOT. Found here and there on the rocky coast.
Saw several in 1898 on the rocks at Muchalls, and I conjecture
they breed at
" Fowlsheugh."
LITTLE AUK. Year after year there are specimens driven on our
coast in stormy weather. Some years ago one was got at
Auchinblae, and is now in the school collection. This year
(iyth March) one was found dead near my garden. Many
others are recorded.
PUFFIN. Not very common, but I have seen solitary examples on
GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. Its name is
given
the coast at times. In 1898 one passed me within twenty
yards on the beach at Bervie.
in some old works
on county lore, and being at times identified on the Forfarshire
coast, doubtless the bird may be claimed for this county.
LITTLE GREBE. Frequently found about the less disturbed inland
lochs, where it breeds.
THE FISHES OF THE FIRTH OF FORTH AND
ITS TRIBUTARIES: No. II. FURTHER AD-
DITIONS AND OCCURRENCES OF RARE
SPECIES SINCE DR. PARNELL'S "ESSAY" OF
1837-
By WILLIAM EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S.
IN a previous communication ("Annals," 1900, pp. 8-17),
I
enumerated the fishes which had been added to the fauna
of the Forth waters since the publication of Dr. Parnell's
" Essay," and gave the essential particulars relating to the
occurrence of each species.
In the present contribution I
propose (i)to supplement
my former paper by the addition of two species, and to give
some further information concerning certain fishes treated of
therein; 1 and (2) to give particulars of the occurrence of
1
That this should be necessary is due to the fact that the first contribution
had to be produced at a few hours' notice, to supply the place of another paper
which failed us at the last moment.