224 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



TREE-CREEPER, Certhia familiar is, L. Most numerous in winter, a 

 dozen birds sometimes occurring together. A few remain to 

 breed. 



PIED WAGTAIL, Motacilla lugubris, Temm. Common at all 

 seasons. 



WHITE WAGTAIL, Motacilla alba, L. First observed at Balgray and 

 Hangingshaw in the spring of this year. It has probably 

 been overlooked at the time of the spring passage in former 

 years. 



GREY WAGTAIL, Motacilla melanope, Pallas. Chiefly known as a 

 winter bird. 



YELLOW WAGTAIL, Motacilla rail (Bp.) A common nesting species, 

 indeed much the commonest Wagtail in summer in this 

 district. 



TREE PIPIT, Anthus trivialis (L.) Common. Appearing from the 

 2 ist of April onwards. 



MEADOW PIPIT, Anthus pratensis (L.) The most common small 

 bird on the moors in summer, here as elsewhere the Cuckoo's 

 dupe. In winter in a day's walking on the uplands you may 

 fail to find it. In the present year its return to its breeding 

 haunts in numbers was noticed on the 3ist of March. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa grisola, L. Fairly distributed. 

 It appears in considerable numbers in the end of July and 

 August in Camphill. 



SWALLOW, Hit-undo rustica, L. Common. The most curious cir- 

 cumstance in the economy of this species which has come 

 under our observation is its nesting in the tunnels in the 

 sandstone quarries at Giffnock and Williamwood, referred to 

 in the "Annals," 1895, P- 54- Since that notice the birds 

 have reappeared in their former haunts, where a bird has 

 been seen on the nest. The tunnels present the appear- 

 ance of great natural caves, and the nests are sometimes 

 placed over the flooded workings, and are quite inaccessible. 

 The i 2th of April is the earliest date we know of its arrival 

 here. 



HOUSE MARTIN, Chelidon urbica (L.) Locally common. 



SAND MARTIN, Cotile riparia (L.) Common in suitable localities. 



GREENFINCH, Ligurinus chloris (L.) Common. 



GOLDFINCH, Carduelis elegans, Steph. Appears pretty regularly in 

 winter on waste ground about Hangingshaw. It has been 

 reported to us to have nested in two instances in recent years 

 in Cathcart and Eastwood parishes respectively. 



