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1881, when I saw one, but after that they were much scarcer or 

 quite absent. 



Grasshopper Warbler. — Locustella naevia (Boddaert). — Amongst 

 new localities for this species is near Perth, where Mr. P. 1). 

 Maloch found a pair in the summer of 1880. At Grant's House, 

 Berwickshire, where they breed, can hardly be considered as a new 

 locality, as they have long bred in Berwickshire. It is a well-known 

 bird all over the district, as Mr. Hardy informs me, where the 

 conditions suit, but he rather thinks it is becoming scarcer owing 

 to the flat meadows near the railway, which it once frequented, 

 having been thrown into cultivation. 



In 1875 my friend, Mr. D. Bruce, jun., discovered the Grass- 

 hopper Warbler near Stirling, May 26th. In June of the same 

 year he again met with it, and shot one sjwcimen, about a mile from 

 the spot where he first heard it. In a certain copse he has since 

 then "never failed" to find the birds. In 1876, he noted a con- 

 siderable increase in their numbers, and covering a larger area. I 

 have very full particulars from Mr. Bruce [in lit., 9. iii. 81]. 



Kobin. — Erithacus rubecula (Lin.). — Mr. Henderson has never 

 seen a Robin in South Uist, I have however observed them in Xorth 

 Uist, and more commonly in Harris. It appears that the Stonechat 

 is often taken for the Robin by the inhabitants in South Uist. 



Robins suffered greatly at Ballachulish, Argyllshire, and many 

 other localities. 



Common Whitethroat.— Sylvia rufa (Boddaert).— Mr. R. Warren 

 sends me the following note on the Spring Migration of this species 

 at Ballina, Ireland: — "I was watching most anxiously for the 

 Whitethroats. Not a bird appeared in their usual hedge-rows or 

 was heard until 19th May. The following day I heard them singing 

 in all their usual haunts, as if they had all come together, and had 

 at once spread over the district." 



A late Whitethroat was noted by Mr Hardy at Old Cambus, on 

 the 7th September, and again on the 19th. 



The Lesser Whitethroat. — Sylvia curruca (Lin.). — A specimen 

 of this species was killed at Gourdas, Aberdeenshire, on the 4th 

 Nov., 1880, and another seen at Mill of Tifty, as recorded by Mr. 

 G. Sim, Gourdas, Fyvie, in the Scottish Naturalist, Jan., 1881, p. 13. 

 It is perhaps needless to point out at this time, that this is almost 

 undoubtedly a migrant from the K, and not a bird bred, or breeding, 

 in Aberdeenshire. 



