Birds
Found in 260 Collections and/or Records:
Note about the partridge, June 1887
Note probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay about the partridge which reads 'Partri[d]ge Can quite run the peopl[e] Reachlain Iris' [Reachlainn/Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland]. The meaning of the note is unclear.
Note about the ptarmigan, 1883
Note probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about the ptarmigan 'tarmachan' and that it is 'whiter than snow'.
Note about the word 'Falcag' [common auk], March 1895
Note about the word 'Falcag' [common auk] which reads 'Falcag is used by Arch[ibal]d MacDonald Gille na Ciotaig in the story to Dr M[a]cLeod, Gaelic Society of Inverness Vol XII.'
Note and story about forts in the Treshnish Isles, August 1886
Note and story which reads 'Sloc Bran in Cairnaborg mor [Slochd Bran, Cairn na Burgh Mòr] Forts in both. Dùn Chruit in Lunga - a man fell down in search of gull eggs.'
Note entitled 'Bittern', 17 March 1874
Note entitled 'Cuthag' [cuckoo], 1894
Note by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Cuthag' [cuckoo] describing how if early in that morning a cuckoo called between two houses occupied by the same family, one or more of them sleeping an outhouse, then ''there was a separation & coolness to exhist between them'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note of a bird sighting, 1871
Note of a bird sighting collected from Mal[colm] Macaulay at Allt Barra [Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The bird is described as 'Body pure white size of a Buna bhuachaille' [great northern diver] and it was seen in the spring of 1870 and 1871. The text has been scored through in ink as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Note of an unusual bird sighting, 1871
Note of an unusual bird sighting collected from Duncan Sinclair, telling how at the end of July or beginning of August 1871 he had seen a bird with 'red wings & white body bill like a duck size about a gannet or less' and has never seen it before or since. The text has been scored through in ink as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Note of references to be checked, June 1887
Note by Alexander Carmichael to self of references to be checked in relation to the dragonfly, the raven and the spider, namely Tennyson's 'Two Voices', 'Ayton's PCG' and 'Pope's 192'.
Note of two references to 'Dunaire' ['An Duanaire'], c1893
Note of two references to 'Dunaire' ['An Duanaire'] namely 'Caim' ['A Chàim'] on page 57 and 'An eoin'-bhain' on page 62.