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Unusual Nesting-place of Grey Wagtail. A pair of Grey 

 Wagtails nested this year (19 19) in the porch at Poltalloch, Argyll- 

 shire. This is at present lined with Thuya trees in pots, in one of 

 which the nest was built, about 5 feet from the ground. The female 

 struck the glass door of the house and was killed, but the male took 

 charge of the young which flew safely a few days afterwards. 

 G. AV. Malcolm, of Poltalloch. 



Albino Spotted Flycatcher. On 17th July 1919, a pure 

 white young Spotted Flycatcher was captured in Dumfries, and after 

 being kept three days in a cage, where it died, it was sent to me. 

 Hugh S. Gladstone, Dumfriesshire. 



Pied Flycatcher in Aberdeenshire. On 8th May 1919 a 

 Pied Flycatcher {Muscicapa atricapilla) in male plumage was received 

 at Aberdeen University from the Newburgh district. I have not 

 personally met with the species locally until this occasion, and Sim 

 {Vertebrate Fauna of Dee, 1903) gives only a few scattered records. 

 A. Landsborough Thoklson, University of Aberdeen. 



The Whinchat as Imitator. ^To The Scottish Naturalist for 

 1916, p. 282, I contributed some observations on the Whinchat 

 imitatinu: the Swallow's notes. To these I would like to add 

 further instances of the Whinchat's powers as imitator. 



Near Giffnock, on 22nd May 191 7, within the space of twenty 

 minutes or so, I heard from a single bird good renderings of the 

 Pied Wagtail's call-note, the Sand-Martin's chatter, the ratchety 

 note of the Wren, the song of the Corn-Bunting especially the 

 jangling part at the end and the call of the Common Redshank, 

 though not so loud as when uttered by the Redshank itself. On 

 the same evening I had a second Whinchat under observation, 

 which, as it flew with fluttering or quivering wings from a beech- 

 tree to the telegraph wires, sang a finch-like song, a curious 

 compound of the songs of the Goldfinch and the Chaffinch. These, 

 with what I could recall from previous experience, accounted for 

 imitations of the notes of at least eight different species, and, of 

 course, the Whinchat has its own little song and notes as well. 

 John Robertson, Glasgow. 



Golden Eagle in North Uist. Thanks to Mr Anstruther- 

 Gray's kind information, I can now record the Golden Eagle, within 

 recent years, from the neighbourhood of Lochmaddy. 



Whilst stalking on North Lee (6th October 191 3) my informant, 

 along with several others, observed a single bird, which, having 

 settled within 150 to 200 yards, was in full view his telescope, 



