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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a considerablemeasure of success. At this stage a number of men were engagedto dig up turfs covered with the good heather . . . and place it wherebell-heather or grass predominated, and this transplanted heathercontinues to flourish and is spreading, etc. Water-holes were alsodug wherever the water-supply was deficient, or not easily accessible;and in the following season the reward of this forethought wasreaped, for the birds not only bred, but successfully brought theiryoung to maturity. Of these birds, on 26th August 1878, theAdmiral shot five—the firstfruits of Tents Muir. An average bag of some twenty brace was obtained in the seasonfor each of the following seven years—say from 1880 to 1886inclusive—fourteen brace having been shot on one day (on 7thAugust 1886) by two guns. The further history is all interesting, viz. the first inclination ofthe birds to pack and become unapproachable; the correction of thisby instituting a regular system of driving, when Mr. Berry became
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JOHN FOWLIS. WHO INTRODUCED GKOUSE TO THE TENTS MUIRS. BIRDS. 281 the tenant in and after the year 1896. One hot summer, that of 1887,was a trying one for the birds, and only 6J brace were killed thatseason; fresh blood was again introduced, and in the latter end ofNovember nine hen birds were procured from Kirkcudbrightshire,which, being taken to the moor, the basket and its custodian weresurrounded by lustily crowing cocks before even the captives wereset at liberty. The cold summer which followed in 1888 preventedthe results of this new blood being apparent for some time, . . . butin 1889 the bag (19 J brace) was again practically up to the averageof recent years. Mr. Berry concludes his most interesting history by saying:The Grouse may now be considered as thoroughly acclimatised onTents Muir, etc. . . . and the Tents Muir Grouse and their fortunesin the future will be perhaps as much the inimediate concern of thesportsman as of the naturalist; but it is from the point of view oft

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