244 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



THE BIRDS OF RENFREWSHIRE. 



By John Robertson and T. Thornton Mackeith. 

 {Continued from page 127.) 



TrOGLODYTID/E. 

 The *CoMMON Wren is abundant everywhere. 



CeRTHIID/E. 



Though local as a nesting species, the *Tree-Creeper is well 



known. 



MOTACILLID^. 



The *PiED Wagtail is common ; the White Wagtail is 

 observed on passage especially in spring; the *Grev Wagtail 

 haunts our more rapid streams; and the *Yellow Wagtail is, 

 in summer, our commonest AVagtail in certain districts. The 

 *Tree-pipit, by woods and rows of trees, is well known from the 

 middle of April onward; the *MEAD0w-piriT, abundant during 

 summer, is scarce from November till March ; and the *Rock- 

 pipiT is fairly common at all seasons along the shore, from the 

 Cloch Light to Wemyss Bay. 



OrIOLID/E. 



A Golden Oriole was found dead in a Port-Glasgow garden 

 on 8th May 1909, and either the same bird or another was under 

 observation in a Kilmacolm garden, on the two previous days. 



Laniid,^. 



From 1865 onwards there are records of the Great Grey 

 Shrike. Near Lochwinnoch one was got in 1868, two in "the 

 eighties," and a fourth in 1891, The latest record reaches us 

 through Lord Blythswood, whose keeper shot one in January 191 1. 



MUSCICAriD.E. 

 The ^Spotted Flycatcher is well distributed. 



HIRUNDINID/E. 



The *Swallow, *House-martin, and *Sand-martin are 

 common, the last named being more local as a nesting species than 

 the others. 



