NATURE NOTES. 103 
OCCURRENCE OF THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE (Lanius excubitor, 
Linn.) IN ROXBURGHSHIRE. 
AT the January meeting of the Society, I had the pleasure 
of exhibiting a specimen of the Great Grey Shrike, which 
was shot in Rule-Water Valley, near Jedburgh, in the 
month of September 1898. 
The late Mr Robert Gray, in his interesting and accurate 
volume, The Birds of the West of Scotland, says that the 
great grey shrike is a regular winter visitor to Scotland, and 
it has for many years been seen here in the early autumn 
months, frequenting the beautiful wooded glens of our 
middle marches. 
The specimen I showed is apparently an adult male, 
though, according to Gray, such are of rare occurrence in 
Scotland. GrEorGE Fyre, Jedburgh. 
NESTING OF THE PigD FLYCATCHER (Ficedula atricapilla, 
Linn.) IN DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
AT the October meeting of the Society, I had the pleasure 
of exhibiting a nest and four eggs of the pied flycatcher 
which I received from a cousin resident in Dumfries. 
The eggs, which she believed to be those of a chaffinch, 
had, unfortunately, been kept so long before being trans- 
mitted to me that I found it impossible to remove their 
contents, and thus to preserve them. They were, however, 
unquestionably those of the pied flycatcher; and as the near 
vicinity of the town of Dumfries is not given by Mr Service 
(Annals of Scottish Natural History, 1897, p. 249) as a 
breeding locality of that bird, the incident is worthy of 
record, J. B, DossiE. 
