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took the Goosander's nest I saw an adult pair of Scaups on the 

 same loch, iyth May. T. E. BUCKLEY, Rossal, Inverness. 



Grebes in the Forth District. The following birds have passed 

 through my hands lately and may be worth recording : (i) a female 

 Great Crested Grebe (Podieeps eristatus) shot on 3rd February at 

 Cramond by Mr. William Lumley, and presented by him to the 

 Museum of Science and Art; (2) a female Eared Grebe (Podieeps 

 nigricollis] and (3) a female Red-necked Grebe (Podieeps griseigena\ 

 both shot on 8th February by Mr. Robert Colledge at North 

 Berwick. WM. SMALL, Edinburgh. 



House -Martin in Wigtownshire in March. According to a 

 correspondent of the " Glasgow Evening Times," a Swallow was 

 observed near Whithorn at 6.30 P.M. on the 22nd of March this 

 year, and was endeavouring to enter a dwelling-house by one of the 

 windows. On the following day the bird was found dead in one 

 of the apartments, the window of which is kept slightly open. It 

 was forwarded with the correspondent's letter, and was sent by the 

 proprietors of the paper to a Mr. Innes in my neihgbourhood, in 

 whose possession I saw the skin a few days later. The bird was a 

 House-Martin (Chelidon urbiea) with no appearance whatever of hav- 

 ing been in confinement. It may be stated that at Burrow Head, a 

 few miles from Whithorn, there is an enormous colony of House- 

 Martins on the cliffs. JOHN PATERSON, Glasgow. 



Goldfinch in Midlothian. It may be interesting to note that, 

 while walking near Dreghorn, Midlothian, on iSth April, with P. 

 Adair, Esq., we observed a pair of Goldfinches. BRUCE' CAMPBELL, 

 Edinburgh. 



Nesting of the Grasshopper Warbler (Locustclla ntzvici) in 

 " Upper Forth."- Although the Grasshopper Warbler is not at all an 

 uncommon summer visitor to the " Forth " area, its nest seems seldom 

 to have been discovered. At any rate I have myself frequently looked 

 for it, but always, till this year, without success. In the beginning 

 of May 1896 I heard the peculiar "reeling" sound which constitutes 

 the song of this species in a swamp near Aberfoyle, but on returning 

 a fortnight later I failed to hear or see anything more of the birds. 

 This year I revisited the spot in the middle of May, and again the 

 evidence was entirely negative. However, in two or three places, 

 from one to two miles off, the " reeling " was nightly to be heard, 

 and in one or other I hoped to find the nest later on. On ist June 

 I returned, but the search that day produced nothing. The follow- 

 ing day (2nd June 1897), towards evening, my son and I walked 

 out to the old locality at the swamp, little expecting, however, in 

 view of previous experiences, to find the prize there. First a Reed 

 Bunting and then a Sedge Warbler fluttered from their nests, and a 



