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point of their range in the United Kingdom," if by this he 

 means their normal breeding-range, Avhich we should put 

 Considerably to the southward. In this category Mr. Evans 

 has greatly disappointed in one important bird — the Willow- 

 Tit. Although he has one positive record from Mr. W. 

 Evans of the occurrence of this bird in the area, yet he 

 heads the article Parus dresseri, and does not admit the 

 Willow-Tit, although he acknowledges its distinction. This 

 seems inconsistent, and in fact he brings no evidence to 

 show that the Marsh-Tit has ever occurred in the area. 

 The Marsh or Willow-Tit is, however, common and possibly 

 both occur ; this is the very region from which we require 

 information, and it would surely have been an easy matter 

 for Mr. Evans to have procured specimens from different 

 localities, and made some attempt to define the status of 

 these interesting birds. 



Some points of detail which we have noted, and some recent 

 records which have not apjDcared in our pages, may be here 

 mentioned seriatim. Only one Black Redstart and no Blue- 

 throat is recorded. The Lesser Whitethroat is noted on Mr. 

 G. Bolam's authority as i^ossibly breeding at Berwick in 

 1902 and 1904. The Grasshopper-Warbler is said to be 

 commoner than might be supposed from the account in 

 " Yarrell." The breeding of the Nuthatch near Ednam 

 (Roxburgh) in 1850, is considered authentic. The Yellow 

 Wagtail is not recorded as breeding, and appears to be un- 

 common even as a migrant. In a very full account of the 

 Pied Flycatcher it is a i)ity that records undoubtedly due to 

 passage-migrants have not been kept altogether separate 

 from breeding records ; amongst the latter that of a nest and 

 eggs found near Hawick (Roxburgh) on May 18th, 1901 

 {Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1902, p. 79), seems to have escaped the 

 author's notice. A Green Woodpecker is recorded from 

 Linhope in the autumn of 1903. The Buzzard does not now 

 breed. The Honey-Buzzard is considered the commonest 

 Buzzard visiting the area, and was recorded as breeding in 

 1897, by Mr. Bolam {cf. supra, p. 85). The Hobby has not 

 been proved to nest. A Night-Heron was taken in Holy 

 Island about 1908, a Little Bittern near Eyemouth (Berwick), 

 on May 18th, 1904, and a Spoonbill at Holy Island shortly 

 prior to December, 1908. There are only two positive records of 

 the occurrence of the Grey Lag Goose ! Mr. Evans says that 

 the Eider bred on the Coquets in Selby's time, " but seems 

 to have vanished thence when the lighthouse was erected in 

 1841." But Mr. Jourdain informs us that in 1856 Salvin 

 took eggs there which are now^ in the British Museum. The 



