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eyebrow was chiefly behind the eye, and not so distinct in front. 

 The female was mostly olive-brown above, with a distinct light eye- 

 brow, a darker streak through the eye, below that a pale streak (not 

 well marked), and all the rest of the underparts yellow, paler than 

 in the male, and the two wing-bars were not so distinct. Altogether 

 I visited their haunt ten times between igth May and 3ist July, 

 and found them always about the same part, by the banks of the 

 burn. 



From the very first their behaviour seemed to show that they had 

 a nest, but I never succeeded in finding one, though time and again 

 I thought I had located it. Although very tame, the birds were very 

 wary, and I really cannot be sure that they actually had a nest. 

 On 8th July, however, the female was certainly carrying food in 

 her bill when I first saw her. It is not likely that the nest would 

 have been disturbed by anybody else, as the place is a lonely one. 



I have given pretty full particulars, in the belief that the birds 

 were the Blue-headed Wagtail. LEWIS N. G. RAMSAY, Aberdeen. 



Nesting of the Lesser White throat in Tay : a Correction. 

 I deem it right to say that, in view of the doubt expressed by Mr. 

 Paterson in the July issue of the " Annals " as to the nesting of 

 the Lesser Whitethroat in "Tay" ("Annals" 1907, p. 185), I 

 submitted the egg taken by me last June to Mr. Eagle Clarke, and 

 that he has quite definitely expressed the opinion that the egg is 

 that of the Common Whitethroat. THOMAS L. DEWAR, Cupar. 



Wood and Garden Warblers at Loch Awe. When at Loch 

 Awe in June I heard the Garden Warbler (Sylvia hortensis) and 

 the Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) there, the former on 

 Inchconnan. The Wood Warbler is a sufficiently common bird, 

 and so I think the Garden Warbler may be, but Mr. Harvie-Brown 

 wishes me to have these notes recorded in the " Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History."- -JAMES S. DIXON, Fairleigh, Bothwell. 



Gadwall in Scotland in the Breeding Season. From the 

 middle of May till the end of June this year, I had two pairs of 

 Gadwall (Anas strepera) under observation on a certain loch in 

 the east of Scotland, under circumstances which left no doubt in 

 my mind that they were nesting there. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Black Tern in Tweed and Forth. In the beginning of May 

 last I examined an adult male Black Tern (Hydrochelidon nigra), 

 which was obtained at Hoselaw Loch, near Kelso, on 28th April. 

 It was accompanied by another bird of the same species, and they 

 were seen to be taking flies off the water. 



On 29th August I came upon what I have no doubt was an 

 immature Black Tern on the east side of Aberlady Bay. It was 

 a wounded bird, unable to fly any distance, and allowed me to get 

 quite close to it several times ; indeed, I followed it for a while 

 with the idea of catching it. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



