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NOTES. 



Goldfinch in the Moray area. In view of the scarcity of the 

 Goldfinch in Moray, it may be worth while to record that on 9th 

 October 191 2 I watched a " charm " of half a dozen birds feeding off 

 seeding sow-thistles in a garden on the outskirts of Cromarty. 

 In Dr Harvie-Brown's Fauna of Moray (1895) the Goldfinch is 

 stated to be probably extinct in the northern portion, and south of 

 the Ness resident but extremely local. In the Dee area Geo. 

 Sim looks upon it also as extinct. Chas. Oldham, Berkhamsted, 

 Herts. 



Migratory Blackcap in song in Shetland. As a rule most 

 song-birds when on passage are silent silent inasmuch as they 

 do not sing. I think the following experience may be of 

 interest and worth recording. On the 12th of May I was greeted, 

 on opening the door, with the song of a Blackcap, the first time I 

 have heard its song in Shetland. I went down the garden and 

 watched him for some time, and saw him again in the afternoon, 

 when he was busily engaged feeding. John S. Tulloch, Lerwick. 



Swift in Dumfriesshire. It may be of interest to note that 

 I saw a Swift here on 25th April. This is very early for this 

 locality. Last year I did not see the species here till 1st May, and 

 in 1912 not till 5th May. Hugh S. Gladstone, Thornhill, 

 Dumfriesshire. 



Scottish Heronries Correction of name. In the summary 

 on page 115 of the May number of the Scottish Naturalist the 

 name Shetland should be Pentland. This is correctly given in my 

 MS., and also in my original list see Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1908, 

 p. 220. I know of no heronries in Shetland at present. 



The name " Pentland " is Dr Harvie-Brown's designation for a 

 portion of the area originally called Sutherland, Caithness, and West 

 Cromarty, which was covered by the first volume (1S87) of his 

 Vertebrate Fauna series. Hugh Boyd Watt, London. 



Nesting of the Dunlin in Berwickshire. Under this 

 heading a note was sent to the Scottish Naturalist in July of 1913. 

 Mr Hunter, Shepherd, Glenburnie, was mentioned there as having 

 found a newly hatched chick and part of the shell of the egg of a 



