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The hollies and other bushes in the garden were searched for a 

 nest, but no trace of one was found. 



Gecinus viridis. — A Green Woodpecker was shot by Mr John 

 Barrie, gamekeeper, at Bonkyl, near Duns, in the autumn of the 

 year 1900. The bird was preserved, and it is now in the possession 

 of Mr J. Simpson, gamekeeper, Manderston. I have seen this 

 specimen and made inquiries about it, and found its authenticity 

 beyond question. There are very few reliable records for this 

 species as a visitor to Scotland. [Sir T. D. Gibson Carmichael 

 liberated several in Peeblesshire a number of years ago — Eds.] 

 Coturnix communis. — A Quail was shot at Whitehall, near Chirn- 

 side, on the 18th October last. It has been presented to the Royal 

 Scottish Museum. Phalaropus fulicarius. — A Grey Phalarope 

 was picked up under the wires of the telegraph beside the railway 

 near Greenlaw, in November 1906. It is now in the collection of 

 Mr T. Moffat, gamekeeper, Marchmont, by whom it was preserved. 



The records of the Green-Woodpecker and the Grey- 

 Phalarope are not given in the recently published Fauna of the 

 Tweed Area. — T. G. Laidlaw, Duns. 



Some Bird Notes from the Solway Area. — A Hooded 

 Crow, the first ever seen in the district, was shot near Monybuie, 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, about 17th October 191 1. A Hoopoe, so I am 

 informed by a gamekeeper, was seen near Carnsalloch, in December 

 1 910 — a very unusual, though not unprecedented, date for the local 

 appearance of this rare spring migrant to England. Early in 

 December 191 1, I was sent a young Pintail Duck which had 

 been shot on the shore below Glencaple, Dumfriesshire, and 

 another was shot about the same time near Dormont, Dalton. I 

 believe this species now visits the estuary of the Nith in annually 

 increasing numbers. — Hugh S. Gladstone, Capenoch, Thornhill. 



Hawfinch in West Lothian. — On 21st June a young male 

 Hawfinch {Coccothraustes coccothraustes) was found alive in Dalmeny 

 Park, West Lothian, by Mr David M'Diarmid, head gamekeeper 

 to the Earl of Rosebery. The bird, which was not more than ten or 

 twelve days old, had evidently fallen from a nest not far off. Owing 

 to the density of the foliage the nest was not discovered until 

 December, when it was found by Mr W. Evans in a hawthorn tree 

 close to where the young bird was obtained. — Bruce Campbell, 

 Edinburgh. 



The Continental Song-Thrush and Northern Willow- 

 Wren in Haddingtonshire. — As those of our readers who are 

 ornithologists are aware, Dr Hartert considers that native British 



