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EEDBKEAST. 



ERYTIIACUS RUBECULA (L.) 91. 



Seen also, not uncommonly, around Loch Invcr, and on the 

 wooded slopes of the river Inver. 



HEDGE ACCENTOR. 



ACCENTOR MODULARIS (,L.) 91. 



A pair of these birds was seen by our party in a very bleak 

 wild part of the country, far from wood, on the north-east side of Ben 

 More, Assynt, in June this year. They were evidently carrying 

 food to their young. I observed them commonly around Loch 

 Inver. 



GREAT TIT. 



PARUS MAJOR, L. 91. 



Mr Mackenzie writes that he has never seen this species in 

 Sutherland. I only once met with it in the west, at Loch 

 Inver. There are, however, eggs of this bird in the collection 

 at Dunrobin, as I am informed by Dr Joass. 



LONG-TAILED TIT. 



ACRE DU LA ROSEA {Bhjth). 92. 



Very common about Lairg and Dornoch {aid. Mr Thomas 

 Mackenzie). Mr Crawford of late years has remarked the scarcity 

 of some of our smaller species, such as the Titmice, and especially 

 this species, in the north. 



GREY WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA SULPHUREA, Beclist. 92. 



On the same burn-side where I used to find two pairs of the 



Grey Wagtails in 1869, I again found two pairs this year, 



frequenting exactly the same spots. I also observed a pair below 



the fall on the Kirkaig river. They do not appear to increase, 



but they hold to their old nesting sites with tenacity. 

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