332 The Scottish Naturalist. 



90. Pyrrhula vulgaris. Flem. The Bullfinch. 



Nowhere common. Probably most numerous in Had- 

 dingtonshire and Linlithgowshire. 



[Pyrrhula enucleator. Linn. The Pine Grosbeak. 

 A very rare straggler from the north. Edinburgh, 1808.] 



91. LoxiA CURVIROSTRA. Liji7i. The Common Crossbill. 



Rare. Seen now and then in small flocks. One of 40 

 or 50 occurred in Berwickshire in 1870. I have reason 

 to believe the Crossbill breeds in Linlithgowshire. 



[LoxiA BiFASCiATA. WHsoii. The European White-winged 

 Crossbill. 

 A rare straggler. Roxburgh, 1845 (Yarrell).] 



[LoxiA leucoptera. Gineln. The American White-winged 

 Crossbill. 

 Of equally rare and exceptional occurrence. Jedburgh, 

 1841.1] 



{To be continued. ) 



Birds of tlie South-east of Scotland. — I should like to see the above 

 list made as full and accurate as possible, especially as, so fax- as I am 

 aware, there is no complete list for the district, but a large amount of mate- 

 vial scattered through various publications. I was disappointed at the very 

 outset, when looking over it, to find several inaccuracies. There were also 

 some doubtful cases inserted— birds seen only from a distance ; while others, 

 which had been actually captured and recorded in the same work, were 

 omitted. Most of the records of rare species will doubtless be correct, but 

 the following, concerning the Golden Eagle, I believe are incorrect : "Rox- 

 burgh, 1876, and Jan. 1877 ('Berw. Nat. Proc.,' vol viii. p. 196); Dunse, 

 Jan. 1877 "(see 'Scot. Nat.,' July 1878, p. 278). The only Golden Eagle 

 that I am aware of having been obtained in the above district about that 

 time was a young female, which was shot on the Cheviots by one of the Duke 

 of Roxburghe's gamekeepers on the \yh of Feb maty 1877. The eagle shot 

 at Marchmont (Dunse), February 7, 1877, and which went the round of the 

 newspapers as a Golden Eagle, was an Erne ! as also another which was cap- 

 tured a few years ago on the neighbouring estate of Chcsters. 



Under " llie Osprey," after mentioning a few instances, we find ''several 

 old or unauthenticated instances are mentioned in the ' Proc. of the Berw. Nat. 

 Club,' and elsewhere." Besides several old specimens that I have seen which 



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^ .Gray's * Birds of the West of Scotland.' 



