14 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



In addition to the species specified, I have also seen the 

 following birds in the district, about which it is not necessary 

 to offer any remarks. There are the Missel Thrush, Song 

 Thrush, Blackbird, Ring Ouzel, Wheatear, Redstart, Red- 

 breast, Goldcrest, Willow Wren, Wood Wren, Sedge 

 Warbler, Hedge Sparrow, Dipper, Great Titmouse, Cole 

 Titmouse, Blue Titmouse, Wren, Creeper, Pied Wagtail, 

 Meadow Pipit, Blue Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, 

 House Martin, Sand Martin, Greenfinch, Sparrow, Chaffinch, 

 Linnet, Bullfinch, Yellow Bunting, Reed Bunting, Starling, 

 Jackdaw, Rook, Skylark, Swift, Cuckoo, Kestrel, Mallard, 

 Teal, Wood Pigeon, Red Grouse, Pheasant, Partridge, Corn- 

 crake, Waterhen, Golden Plover, Lapwing, Snipe, Redshank, 

 Curlew, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, and Lesser Black- 

 backed Gull. 



NOTE ON THE EGGS OF THE WOOD SAND- 

 PIPER (TOTANUS GLAREOLA) TAKEN IN 

 ELGINSHIRE IN 1853. 



By WILLIAM EVANS, F.R.S.E., M.B.O.U. 



SOME years ago, when looking over the pages of Morris's 

 " Naturalist," I came upon the following note by the late 

 C. Thurnall, Whittlesford, Cambridge, which I have not seen 

 mentioned in any ornithological work. It occurs on page 

 254 of the part for November I 853, and reads as follows : 

 " I obtained a nest, containing four eggs, of the Wood Sand- 

 piper, on the 23rd of May 1853, from a birch plantation, 

 situated some distance from a small loch in the county of 

 Elgin, N.B. I saw the bird fly off the nest, and I remarked 

 to my companions that it was a Wood Sandpiper, and when 

 I saw the eggs I was perfectly satisfied that I was correct. 

 I have shown them to Mr. Yarrell, who says they are 

 extremely like that bird's eggs ; and Mr. Bond has also 

 seen them, and has no hesitation in pronouncing them as 

 such." 



The above note, it will be seen, sheds a flood of light on 

 the history of the eggs in Bond's collection, to which A. G. 



