476 PRACTICAL ORNITHOLOGY. 



M. Arrives from the middle of March to the middle of 

 April, and departs in the end of September, King's 

 Park, Pentland Hills, quarries, and stone-walls. Not 

 uncommon. 



W. Generally appears on Bathgate Hills about the begin- 

 ning of April. First observed in 1839 on the 4th. On 

 the 6th May two pairs seen building their nests under 

 stones in a limestone quarry. 



E. Arrived on 12th April 1839. Departed on 28th Au- 

 gust 1838. Common. 



8. White-fronted Redstart. Muticilla Plicenicurus. 



M. Arrives in the end of April, and departs about the 



middle of October. Not very rare. 

 W. Arrives usually about the middle of April. For the 



last three years very few seen about Bathgate. 

 E. Arrived on 27th April 1839. Rather rare. 



9. Black-capped Warbler. Sylvia Atricapilla. 



M. Arrives in the beginning of May. Very rare. Dean 

 House, Braid Hermitage, Colinton, Canaan, and the 

 Duke of Buccleuch''s Park at Dalkeith. 



W. In the neighbourhood of Bathgate, occasionally appears 

 about the beginning of May. On the 3d, 4th, and 5th 

 of May 1839, three remained in my shrubbery. One of 

 them sung most beautifully when perched upon the top 

 of a tall ash tree at my garden door ; its notes were clear 

 and well defined. 



E. A pair seen on 11th May 1839, in a sloe brake, in the 

 glen of the Whittingham Water below Papal. 



10. Garden Warbler. Sylvia hortensis. 



W. Very shy, and seldom seen. I have however heard for 

 several successive years, two or three pairs of them in the 

 neighbourhood pour forth their sweet and mellow notes, 

 perched sometimes upon the top of some tall tree, or the 

 centre of some close retreat. In the beginning of July 

 1838, I discovered a nest with five eggs in Kinneil 

 Wood, belonging to the Duke of Hamilton. It was 

 built in a thicket of brambles, sloe, &c., about two feet 

 from the ground. 



