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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seen by me in 1905 certainly might wellexpress the general destruction.—J. A. H.-B.). Millais mentions that he has four female Capercaillies assumingthe male plumage, and one silvery white variety—a splendid old maleshot by Colonel Eichardson at Ballathie. I have weighed a cockCapercaillie at 12 lbs. This weight is far in advance of the usualweight, which is about 9 lbs. Malloch killed a cream-colouredCapercaillie at Foulis-Wester, Earnside. Capercaillies have greatly increased in numbers at Drumtochty,as Mr. Milne again assures me in July 1905, and he tells me thatBlackgame have also greatly increased simultaneously, owing to thelarge additional acreage now under plantations. Young Capercaillieswere successfully reared at Drumtochty this (1905) spring andsummer by the keeper along with his Pheasants. The present status of the Capercaillie in the north of Fife maybe expressed as little differing from what it was when I wrote theoriginal, viz. resident but not common (Mr. Berwick).
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MEDAL GRANTED BY THE SOCIETE D'ACCLIMATATION DE LA FRANCE, TO THE AUTHOR FOR HIS ESSAY ON THE CAPERCAILLIE IN SCOTLAND. 1882. BIRDS. 287 Order GRALL.E.Family RALLID^. Rallus aquaticus, L. Water-Rail. Resident. Commoner than it usually gets credit for, and in all probability nests regularly if not abundantly. In some winters it appears to be more plentiful than in others.Col. Drummond Hay never met with the nest in the Carse ofGowrie, and he looked upon the bird as merely a winter visitor,though he was well aware of their nests having been found in other parts of the country. No doubt in the main he was right: and sofar as I know, the nest has not yet been discovered anywhere within our present boundaries—at least I am not aware of any that have been recorded—though I am aware of nests having been found, andof the birds having in all probability nested at a locality close to oursouth-west boundary. I cannot help thinking that the nest would be found to occur at several places known to me,

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