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appeared in the Annals of Scottish Nattiral History, October, 

 1895, we have never been able to trace its presence until the 

 present year, when it has turned up in two localities. The first 

 locality, at Gifiiiock, is a small wood, which has been thoroughly 

 investigated for many years each nesting season, and we are quite 

 certain that its occurrence there this year, where Mr. Kobertson 

 has found its nest on a clump of honeysuckle eighteen inches from 

 the ground, points to an extension of its range. The second 

 locality is at Giffnock also, about half-a-mile distant from the 

 first. 



Buteshire. — The ChifF-chaff appears to have been first recorded 

 for Arran by i\Ir. Wm. Evans in 1895 {An7ials of Scottish 

 Natural History, p. 195), and it was heard in the following year 

 by some of the members of this Society who visited Goatfell in 

 May, as mentioned in these Transactions (Yol. IV"., JST.S., p. 365). 



Dr. Niel Fullarton, of Lamlash, sends me the following valuable 

 note on this species : — "The Chiff-chaff I have noticed yearly for 

 upwards of thirty years. It is distributed all over the east side 

 of the island, from Lasjor to Brodick. In the woods above Laofpr I 

 saw it . . . first last year. Nearly every season since I have 

 settled here [Lamlash] (1877), I have come across its nest in some 

 part of the district above-mentioned." 



In Bute, I am informed by Mr. John Orr of this Society, it 

 occurs in the wood south of Kilchattan Bay. 



Argyllshire. —At excursions of this Society in 1895 to Castle 

 Toward and Benmore estates, as recorded in these Transactio7is 

 (Vol. IV., N.S., pp. 368, 369), I heard a single bird calling in 

 each case. ^^^ 



Dumbartonshire. — At an excursion of the Ornithological 

 Section of the Andersonian Naturalists' Society to Bosneath 

 (April, 1895), some four males were heard calling. Mr. James 

 Lumsden says of it, in A Guide to the Natural History of Loch 

 Lomond and Neighbourhood (1895), that it is "not a common 

 bird in any part of the district." It is mentioned as occurring 

 at Camis Eskan, near Helensburgh, in the report of the visit 

 of the Andersonian Naturalists' Society to that place (20th April, 

 1895). 



