ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES MADE IN ISLAND OF BUTE 141 



REGULUS CRISTATUS, (K. L. K.\ In the fir plantations Gold- 

 crests were common ; but they were not confined to these, a few 

 being observed even beyond Kilmichael (near the north end of the 

 island) in the birch and oak thickets, the only kind of " wood " in that 

 part of Bute. 



ACCENTOR MODULARIS (Z.). In the Rothesay and Kingarth 

 districts, where there is plenty of shelter in the form of woods and 

 hedges, the Hedge Sparrow was met with abundantly. 



CINCLUS AQUATICUS, Bechst. A few Dippers, I was told, frequent 

 several of the streams, but I only succeeded in seeing the bird on 

 two occasions. One was on a stream which flows through Mount 

 Stuart grounds ; the other was singing from a block of ice where the 

 Glenmore Burn enters the sea at Ettrick Bay. 



ACREDULA CAUDATA (L.). Parties of Long-tailed Tits were met 

 with on several occasions, chiefly in the woods about Kerrycroy and 

 Mount Stuart and on the west side of Loch Fad. 



PARUS MAJOR, Z., P. ATER, Z., and P. C^ERULEUS, Z. The Great 

 Tit, the Coal Tit, and the Blue Tit, were all common and widely 

 distributed. The Coal Tit, which seemed to be the commonest, was 

 observed in company with the other two and Goldcrests even in a birch 

 thicket near the north end of the island, the nearest fir plantation being 

 across the Kyles at Tigh-na-bruich. 



TROGLODYTES PARVULUS, K. L. K, Wherever we went, be it to 

 the wooded dell or the open heathery hillside, we were sure to 

 meet with the cheery Wren, which evidently finds in Bute a congenial 

 home. 



CERTHIA FAMILIARIS, Z. The Tree-creeper never numerous 

 was about as common as one usually finds it. Around Rothesay 

 and in the Mount Stuart woods nearly every group of Tits was accom- 

 panied by a pair. 



MOTACILLA LUGUBRIS, Temm., and M. MELANOPE, Pall. From 

 first to last a good many Pied Wagtails were noticed, but they were 

 not plentiful. On the last day of the year a solitary Grey Wagtail 

 the only one met with in the island was observed in a ditch by the 

 inland road between Rothesay and Port Bannatyne. At Tigh-na- 

 bruich, on the Argyllshire side of the Kyles, another was noted on 8th 

 January busy searching for insects among the stones on the beach. 



ANTHUS PRATENSIS (Z.) and A. OBSCURUS (Lath.}. A few 

 Meadow Pipits winter in Bute, but the number does not appear to 

 be greater than in many other parts of the South of Scotland. A 

 small party was observed on the moor near Loch Dhu on 3oth 

 December, and on 8th January I met with five on the hillside above 

 Kilmichael. Solitary examples were noted on several other occasions, 

 chiefly on the shore, but on i2th January a bitterly cold day I 



