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Crested Titmouse in West Elgin. In the first week of 

 July I saw a family party of Crested Tits in a small wood about 

 3 miles from Forres. They had evidently been hatched quite 

 near where I saw them, as the young birds were barely able to fly, 

 and the parents were still feeding them. I know these birds have 

 been seen in the woods about Fochabers for some years, but so 

 far as I have seen or heard this is their first appearance in this 

 neighbourhood. R. H. Mackessack, Forres. 



Tufted Duck nesting on Duddingston Loch. There may 



be seen on the loch at present a vigorous brood of eight Tufted 

 Ducks. They hatched out about the beginning of July and are 

 now, the 19th of the month, feeding in the open. The mother 

 bird sits erect in the water with outstretched neck at attention. 

 The young do not scurry about like duckling mallards, but keep 

 pretty well bunched as they dive while feeding. For years Tufted 

 Duck and Pochard have remained on the loch all the year round, 

 but this is the first occasion I have seen the young, thanks very 

 likely to the bombing practice, on the marshy end of the loch. 

 Casually, I may mention there has been an extra number of 

 Sedgewarhlers about this season, and they have been successful 

 with their broods. William Serle, M.B.O.U., The Manse, 

 Duddingston. 



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Little Stint in Outer Hebrides. With reference to Mr 

 Holmes' note on the Little Stint {Tringa minuta) in the Outer 

 Hebrides, which appeared in your issue of May 191 8, I would 

 like to put on record some information as to its occurrence in 

 North Uist. This species first came to the notice of my brothers 

 and myself in 1907, when two examples were obtained, both from 

 the vicinity of Griminish, on nth June 1907 and 27th August 1907 

 respectively. Since the above, the Little Stint has been observed 

 almost annually usually during the latter part of August and 

 beginning of September. These facts may be of some interest, 

 as the example from the Butt of Lewis seems to have been the 

 first actually recorded from the Outer Hebrides. Fred S. 

 Beveridge. 



Moorhen Nesting in Trees. On 2nd June my son found 

 a nest of this bird containing one egg in a dead spruce-fir 

 tree about 9 feet from the ground. Later in the evening we 

 returned to the place. Fragments of shell lying beneath the nest 

 showed that the young had been successfully hatched. A search 



