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Inver. I have also received its eggs from near Tongue, where, 

 Mr Crawford writes, it is a comnion species. Mr Selby says, 

 that at Tongue he was informed, "they do not migrate, but 

 remain during winter upon the margins of the Firth (Kyle of 

 Tongue?), and other low situations, etc." It is somewhat curious, 

 as I have repeatedly been assured, that this species resorts in 

 winter to the stony tops or high parts of the mountains, where, 

 in company with, or at the same time with flocks of Rooks, they 

 feed upon the numerous berries to be found even in mid-winter. 

 It has, however, been suggested to me as possible that both Mr 

 Selby's and my own informants may have mistaken Redwings for 

 Song Thrushes. 



BLACKBIRD. 



TURDUS MERULA, Linnaeus. 



Like the last, and inhabiting the same localities, but not 

 sufficiently known in the more hilly parts for the natives to 

 distinguish it from the next species, to which they erroneously 

 apply the English name of "Blackbird." 



RING OUZEL. 



TURDUS TORQUATUS, Linnaeus. 



This is an abundant species. The nest is generally considered 

 difficult to find. Coming out one day in 1869, expressly to search 

 the burn-sides and low rocks for their nests, in a short time I 

 was fortunate in discovering no less than three, each containing 

 three eggs. Out of six or seven nests obtained in Sutherland 

 that season, only two contained four eggs. I am inclined, there- 

 fore, to consider three eggs to be the usual number laid, at least 

 in this district, though further south four is quite as common. 



Ord. PASSE RES. 

 DENTIROSTRES. Fam. Hi., MUSCICAPIDAE. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



MUSOIOAPA GRISOLA, Linnaeus. 



The Spotted Flycatcher, like many other insect-feeding species, 

 is confined to the more wooded portions of the county, nor does 



