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Identifier: faunaoftaybasins00harv
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
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repeatedly. The salmon-pools, famous for their wealth of fish,are now taken over by the Perthshire Syndicate, and no netting isdone beyond what is sufficient to maintain the right; and therebythe river-angling of the upper reaches of the Tay has already beenvastly improved. Many references will be found in the text to thisparadise of Wild-fowl and migrants. % LOCH OF LINDORES FIFE. xlv LOCH OF LINDORES ^—FIFE. The Loch of Lindores is a fine sheet of water lying among gentlyswelling and rounded uplands about two miles from Newburgh. Itis shallow and abounds in pike. Several large patches of reeds andbulrushes occupy the end nearest to iSTewburgh, and round the onlyisland and about the centre of the loch. It is the favourite hauntof Wild – fowl in winter, and of Great Crested Grebes, Coots,Waterhens, and Tufted Ducks in summer. On the occasion of myonly visit to its shores—in 1905—I counted four pairs of the GreatCrested Grebe on the water, not yet incubating on their nests among
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LOCH OF LINDORES. the reeds. This was about the end of May. Our illustration willgive a very fair idea of its scenic abilities, as well as show its natureas a Wild-fowl haunt. Mrs. Corstorphine, of Inchyre Grange, kindly ^ Mr. Maitland, of Lindores, kindh furnishes a list of Wild-fowl recognised asfrequenting Loch Lindores. The following species are noted: Mallard, Teal,Goldeneye, Tufted Duck, Wigeon, Shelduck, Shoveller, Pochard, Dabchiek,Great Crested Grebe, Waterhen, Coot ; but Mr. Maitland believes his list to be farfrom complete {in lit., 9th Nov. 1904). However, I sent the list to Mr. Evans tosee if he could supplement it, but he returned it without any additions. xlvi DESCRIPTIVE CHAPTERS. offered to obtain for me, later in the season, photographs of closeviews of the Grebes, because when out in their boat she often hasthe cliance of seeing them at very close quarters after they havehatched off their young, when they are very tame and permit a nearapproach, but she has not been
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