112 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, ^c. 



X. — Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, ^c. 

 We have received the following letters : — 



To the Editor of ' The Ibis.' 



26 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, W.C. 



Sir, — In reference to the remark in ' The Ibis/ vol. i. p. 404, 

 " we are pretty sure that if the Chiff-chaff occurs at all in the 

 Scandinavian peninsula, it is only in the extreme south/' I beg 

 to send you a copy of a note I made respecting this species on 

 my return to London, after visiting Norway in the summer of 

 1856 :~ 



" The ChifF-chafF [Phylloscopus rufus) was not so abundant in 

 Norway as the common Willow-Wren (P. /roc/ii/ws), neither does 

 it frequent the higher lands, at least I did not either hear or see 

 it there. I did, however, hear it sing; and my companion, 

 Mr. Wolf, shot one near the celebrated waterfalls at Trondheim. 

 The legs of this specimen were dark olive-brown, the nails and 

 toes the same ; the soles and back of the tarsi yellowish ; bill 

 olive-brown ; under mandible and gonys yellowish ; eye nearly 

 black." Yours, &c., John Gould. 



[Obs. We are much indebted to Mr. Gould for thus informing 

 us with respect to the range of the Chiff-chaff in Norway, which 

 certainly seems to be more northerly than we had supposed ; 

 but our remarks, as regards Hei'r Schrader's assertion, are but 

 little affected thereby, as Trondheim is still within the limits of 

 the southern portion of the peninsula. — ' The Ibis ' Reviewer.'] 



To the Editor of ' The Ibis.' 



October 24, 1860. 

 Sir, — I beg leave to forward to you such particulars as I have 

 been able to obtain regarding a curious locality chosen for 

 breeding by a pair of Golden Eagles [Aquila chrrjsaetos) in 

 Perthshire during the past season. The nest was built in a 

 large Scotch-fir tree — one of a wood on the southern bank of 

 Glen Lyon, on the other side of the river, but not more than 

 350 yards distance from Meggernie Castle, the present residence 

 of Ronald Steuart Menzies of Culdares. Four eggs were laid, by 



