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got in the neighbourhood, kindly procured it for me. The account 

 given of the bird was, that it was shot by a man named James 

 Culloch on Leadlaw Hill, near Stoneypath Farm, a little to the north 

 of West Linton, about the year 1872, and given to Mr. Porteous, late 

 landlord of the Townhead Hotel there, who got it stuffed in Penicuik. 

 These particulars Mr. Anderson had from Mr. Porteous and his 

 sister. In the " Proceedings " of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 

 for 1 88 1 (vol. ix., p. 488), there is a record of a specimen of the 

 Chough procured in the vicinity of The Glen, near Innerleithen. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Crossbills on the North-East Coast of Scotland. In connection 

 with Mr. A. G. Gavin's remarks, re Crossbills at Fraserburgh, I may 

 state that I saw a party of seven in the Sinclair Hills, on Philorth 

 estate, on i5th December 1909. I have shot this wood for many 

 years, but have never seen Crossbills there before. I also saw a 

 Great Spotted Woodpecker on the same day. W. STEWART-MENZIES, 

 Craig Ellachie. 



Golden Oriole in Fife. On 1 6th May a fine adult male Golden 

 Oriole (Oriolus galbula) was found dead, but in a perfectly fresh 

 condition, in an old wooded quarry in the policies of Dhuloch House, 

 Inverkeithing. The bird was sent to Dr. Hew Morrison, Edinburgh, 

 who very appropriately presented the bird to the Royal Scottish 

 Museum in the name of Miss Lauder, of Dhuloch, who had 

 forwarded the specimen to him. It has made a beautiful mounted 

 example. WM. EAGLE CLARKE. 



Greater Wheatear in the Solway Area. On the i8th of May 

 I saw, during the greater part of the day, three individuals of Saxicola 

 lucorrhxa in some fields close to Southerness on the Solway coast 

 of Kirkcudbrightshire. I have seen this peculiar and quite 

 distinguishable form of Wheatear in other springs, and also in 

 autumn, and have always been greatly interested in its visits. 

 ROBERT SERVICE, Maxwelltown. 



Arctic Bluethroat in the Clyde Area. On i4th May I had 

 the great good fortune to come across an Arctic Blue-throated 

 Warbler (Cyanecula suecica), while walking up the Clyde Valley with 

 my friend, Mr. H. Duncan. It was skulking in fairly thick foliage 

 in the close vicinity of the river, and when disturbed was very rest- 

 less. Its identity was, however, established beyond any doubt, and 

 as it flew off, we particularly noted the tail with its slight amount of 

 red and conspicuously dark terminal band. It is a bird with which 

 I am quite familiar, having seen quite a number of them during my 

 residence on Fair Isle. It is, I believe, an addition to the birds of 

 the Clyde area, and the second record for the Scottish Mainland 

 in spring. This particular locality, near Carmyle, seems to have 

 an attraction for birds on passage, for on the same day we noted 



