152 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



WOOD WARBLER. 



Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechst.J. 

 Arrived at Oldcambus, Berwickshire, on May 12th, and again 

 on May 23rd, which, there, was a great day of migration of various 

 species. 



WH1TETHROAT. 



Sylvia rufa (Boddaert). 



Has been abundant this summer, as reported by several corres- 

 pondents, and observed by myself in autumn before they migrated. 



GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 



Regulus cristatus, Koch. 



The glens of Mull were simply swarming with this species, and 

 several species of Tits, during migration in October, but very few 

 were seen after December [J. H. ex ore]. Up to 9th May only 

 one Gold-crest had been seen by Mr. Hardy, and that in furze. 

 Woods around Dunipace, where they used to be seen plentifully, 

 appear almost quite denuded of them. Up the river Almond, in 

 Perthshire, where there used to be hundreds, this year there is 

 not a single one to be seen, as I am informed by Mr. Maloch. It 

 would be interesting to know if these birds have crowded down to, 

 and proved very abundant in, lower latitudes this season, as in the 

 case of the Thrushes. A general scarcity is recorded in migration 

 of autumn of 1879. 



ROBIN. 



Erithacus eubecula (Lin.). 



Remained about houses, bub a diminution of their numbers 

 observed in April, 1879. Robins sought shelter in rabbit-holes at 

 Taycreggan, Argyllshire, and many were caught and killed by the 

 rabbit-catcher's ferrets, as were also some Larks and Chaffinches 

 [q.v.]. Robins died, it is believed, as much from cold as 

 hunger, as pointed out by Mr. Robert Service in the Dumfries 

 Courier [25th March, 1879]. After the severe frost of 13th-14th 

 December a gardener found three lying close to the fire, two dead 

 and one dying [loc. cit.]. Robins remained unusually scarce all 

 summer, but in certain sheltered and favourite haunts I recog- 

 nized, both in May and in September, the genius loci, in the 

 shape of the " old resident," the Robin. Thus in the Yale of 



