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On the 2oth I counted ten, on the yth May fifteen, on the 22nd 

 eleven. Within the limits named it invariably finds a place in the 

 lists of birds noted in our excursions, but beyond these limits I have 

 almost entirely failed to find it. In my lists of birds seen in the Upper 

 Ward of Lanarkshire, in Ayrshire, Wigtownshire, Kircudbrightshire, 

 Bute, and Arran, it meantime finds no place. Much more extensive 

 experience has no doubt led Mr. Harvie-Brown to the opinion he 

 expresses, but a little acquaintance with the surroundings of Glasgow 

 would make him modify his views. The Yellow Wagtail is well 

 known even within the city boundary, and never fails to turn up in 

 the third week in April about our disused clay workings, where it 

 remains during summer. JOHN PATERSON, Glasgow. 



The Garden Warbler in the Clyde Area. Attention has been 

 called through the press in Glasgow to the occurrence of quite a 

 number of pairs of the Garden Warbler (Sylvia hortensis) in a wood 

 near Hamilton. As there is room for additional information regard- 

 ing the distribution of this species in Scotland, the following may 

 not be without interest. In Gray's " Birds of the West of Scotland " 

 there is only one locality specified where it had been observed, and 

 as there is nothing unusual in the circumstance of its occurrence at 

 Inverkip to justify the special notice, it leaves the reader in doubt 

 as to the value to attach to the general statement in the preceding 

 paragraph regarding its occurrence "in the sheltered and wooded 

 districts of the southern and midland counties." At Inverkip (West 

 Renfrewshire) it was observed by Gray's friend Mr. William Sinclair. 

 Proceeding up the river from this point, I have been informed by 

 Mr. Morris Young of its occurrence as a familiar breeding species 

 around Paisley (particularly observed in recent years). In East 

 Renfrewshire it has been observed this spring in Cathcart and 

 Mearns parishes. Twenty years since it was recorded as breeding in 

 the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow. Then I have the information com- 

 municated by Mr. James S. Dixon, Fairleigh, Bothwell, to the 

 "Glasgow Herald," under date 2Qth May 1895, that in many years' 

 experience he has seldom seen or heard it in the neighbourhood, 

 whereas "at present at least half a dozen pairs are nesting in a 

 wood formerly much frequented by the chiff-chaff and wood-wren, 

 this season, till now, conspicuous by their absence." Through Mr. 

 Dixon's courtesy, I have had an opportunity of visiting the wood to 

 which he refers, and I can confirm his observation as to their 

 frequency there. Following up this matter, I went on the 8th of 

 June with Mr. John Robertson, Thornliebank, to Cleghorn Woods 

 and Cartland Crags, on the Mouse Water, near Lanark, where we 

 found half a dozen Garden Warblers in song, and on crossing the 

 bridge below Telford's we heard another in an orchard. On the 

 afternoon of the same day, between the loop at the Falls and Corra 

 Linn, we heard three others. In Cleghorn Woods and at the Falls 



