THE BIRDS OF CARMICHAEL PARISH 207 



GRAY WAGTAIL, Motacilla melanope, Pallas. Regular visitor in less 

 numbers than the preceding ; relative numbers of species seem 

 to have changed since Alston's time (" B. W. S.") 



[" YELLOW WAGTAIL, Motacilla flava " (" S. A.") ; " BLUE WAGTAIL, 

 Motacilla cttrulea " (" S. A."). Noted in 1838 as birds of the 

 parish. Are probably the Gray and Pied species respectively, 

 neither of which is given in " S. A."] 



TREE PIPIT, Anthus trivialis (L.} This species visits the parish and 

 district regularly in fair numbers. Mr. Alston (" B. W. S.") also 

 records its presence, and Mr. Paterson found it common 

 (" Notes "). Mr. D. Pringle reports it common in his district. 



MEADOW PIPIT, Anthus pratensis (L.), local name " Mosscheeper." 

 Abundant in spring, summer, and autumn all over the grass 

 and heath lands of the district. 



GREAT GRAY SHRIKE, Lauius excubitor, L. Irregular visitor. 

 Specimen shot near the Manse by Mr. R. Gray, then gamekeeper, 

 Carmichael, preserved in Carmichael House. One was shot in 

 Lanark Parish, April n, 1896 ("Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History," 1896, p. 190); another in Carluke Parish about 

 November 1896 (Mr. D. Pringle). 



WAXWING, Ampelis garri/Zies, L. Gray records ("B. W. S.") the 

 capture of five birds of this species near Lanark early in 

 December 1866. One was got three or four years ago at 

 Hazelbank on the Clyde, about three miles north of Lanark 

 (Mr. D. Pringle). 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa grisola, L. Regular and common 

 summer visitor. Nests every season on the ivied walls of the 

 Manse offices. Alston once observed a nest on the ground at the 

 root of a tree (" B. W. S.") Arrived this season on May 19. 



SWALLOW, Hirundo ritstica, L. Every farm "town" holds a nesting 

 colony of this species. 



MARTIN, Chelidon urbica (L.) As abundant as the preceding, and 

 nests under eaves of farmhouses and in haysheds. Mr. Paterson 

 observed a colony on railway bridge over Mouse at Cleghorn 

 ("Notes"). 



SAND MARTIN, Cotile riparia (L.) Common, and nesting wherever 

 it finds suitable sites. It arrived this year April 18, a week 

 before the swallow, April 23. 



GREENFINCH, Ligurinus chloris (L.) Resident. Very abundant in 

 late autumn and winter. 



GOLDFINCH, Cardnelis elegans, Stephens, local name " Gouldie."- 

 Once common in the district, to judge from " S. A." and from the 

 statements of elderly persons as to numbers trapped by bird- 



