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The Scottish Naturalist. 



71. Corn Bunting". — This bird is not very common in Perthshire, hav- 

 ing a greater predilection for the lands adjoining the coast line ; hence it is 

 found much more abundantly in all the other counties, near the sea. 



73. Oirl Banting. — Mr. Angus obtained a fine male of this species, 

 shot in Aberdeenshire, near Banchory, on Deeside, communicated to Mr. 

 Robt. Gray (Bds. W. Scot, p. 132). The nest and eggs of this species are 

 said to have been found on Moncreiffe Hill, near Perth ; but the bird has 

 never been got (fide Mr. J. Stewart, Perth). 



74. Ortolan Bunting". — Mr. Angus obtained a pair of these birds in 

 Aberdeen, captured in a turnip field near the sea side in the end of November, 

 1863 ; and a pair were got on the Isle of May, Autumn of 1885. A pair also 

 remained some days on the island in the spring of the same year. — (Report on 

 Migration, i885.) 



75. Reed Bunting. — Leaves Perth in severe winters. 



76. Snow Bunting is believed to breed occasionally on the higher 

 mountains of Aberdeen. A pair were seen by myself, evidently nesting, 

 on the face of Ben Muic Dhui above Loch Avon, on the 21st June. 



78. ^vV"ood Liark. — This bird, so rare in most parts, seems to be not un- 

 frequent in Aberdeenshire ; is even said to bred there, near Huntly (fide H. 

 O. Forbes, Scot. Nat., 1871, p. 48.) Mr. George Sim also records the capture 

 of a female at Fyvie, on Christmas-day, 18S0 — (Scot. Nat., 188 1, p. 61) ; and 

 Mr. Gray states that Mr. Angus informed him that in the last week of March 

 he shot a male of this species near Insch, which bird Mr. Gray had seen ; also, 

 in March, 18S5, Mr. Angus had noticed another. Mr. A. Nicol Simpson 

 believes it to have been got at Arbroath. 



79. Shore Lark. — Two were caught at a farm near St. Andrews, out 

 of a flock which visited the estuary of the Eden in the winter of 1865 ; and 

 one was shot at Oathead, St. Andrews, on 31st December, iS69, associating 

 with meadow pipits, one of which was killed along with it (fide Robert 

 Walker, Scot. Nat., July 1871, p. 79). This is probably the bird alluded to by 

 Mr. Robert Gray (Birds of W. Scot., p. 118), when he says, "on the 1st January, 

 1870, a specimen was shot at St. Andrews, and passed into the hands of Mr. 



T. \V. W-irdUw Ramsay of Waitehill, and was exhibited by him before the 

 Glasgow Nat. Hist. Society. 



