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LESSER REDPOLE. 



LINOTA RUFESCENS {Vieillot). 



I can find no record of this species occurring in the breeding 

 season, except in Mr More's paper, where it is included in sub- 

 province 35. I have not myself met with it. 



HOUSE SPARROW. 



PASSER DOMESTICUS ( Linnaeus). 

 Common in cultivated districts, though absent at Inchnadamph. 



TREE SPARROW. 



PASSER MONT ANUS {Linnaeus). 



This is an interesting addition to the list of birds found breeding 

 in the county, since the first draft of this paper was written. It is 

 first recorded by Mr Thomas Mackenzie of Dornoch Castle, near 

 which place he himself observed the birds in 1872, and took the 

 eggs in some numbers, though he had not previously seen the 

 species in the county. I add the principal part of the observations 

 made by him, and which he kindly communicated to me : — 



March 28th, 1872. — " A flock of a dozen observed in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Dornoch." 



May nth, 1872.—" Six eggs just at hatching." 

 May 24th, 1872. — " Two young birds in nest, also one egg just 

 at hatching and two addled eggs. Captured bird on nest — a male." 

 June 8th, 1872. — " Cot two nests with five and six eggs, fresh." 

 June 27th, 1872.—" From the two nests referred to on the 8th, 

 other ten eggs were obtained to-day." 



July 25th, 1872. — " Obtained four fresh eggs from the same 

 nesting place." 



August 9th, 1872. — "Another nest with four fresh eggs.'' 

 I have to thank Mr Mackenzie further for kindly forwarding for 

 our collection one of the layings taken on the 27th June, and the 

 skin of the male bird, captured on the nest of the 24th May. 



COMMON BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA MILIARIA, Linnaeus. 



In the west I observed this species at Knockan, and at Elphin; 

 also at Scowrie, but never at Inchnadamph. It is abundant about 



