THE BIRDS OF ROUKEN GLEN PARK. 
By JoHN ROBERTSON. 
(Read rst June, 1900.) 
RouKEN GLEN Park is suitable for many species of birds. As 
cover is good, and the glen proper is well sheltered, most of our 
woodland species are to be found. All our local warblers, except 
two, the wood warbler and lesser whitethroat, occur almost 
annually. 
The Capelrig Burn runs through the park, connecting a small 
dam at the head of the glen with Deaconsbank Dam at the foot. 
At present this stream is not pure, the smell given off some 
days by bleaching chemicals being very strong. It is to be hoped 
that the Corporation of Glasgow will take early steps to put a stop 
~ to the pollution of this burn. Not many years ago it was a fine 
trout stream, but no trout could survive in it now. 
-The public have recently been prohibited from fishing on the 
upper reaches of this stream, as well as the Brother Loch, from 
__ which it issues, so that the Glasgow people have a right, which 
can be legally enforced, to demand that the reach which belongs 
to themselves shall be free from pollution. 
The kingfisher, dipper, and grey wagtail flit up and down the 
burn, and coots and waterhens are conspicuous on the dams. 
The list which follows is made up of seventy-four species, but 
that is probably considerably short of the actual number which 
visit Rouken Glen Park, as I made no notes of birds in general 
on my visits. I was more interested in the warblers than the 
other birds. There are many birds in the list which one must 
naturally expect will soon vanish from this locality, now that the 
4 public are admitted in their thousands, but, on the other hand, a 
larger number are likely to remain denizens of the Rouken Glen 
a _ Park for years to come. 
Mistle Thrush (Zurdus viscivorus, L.)—This, the largest of our 
_ thrushes, is pretty much in evidence in the grounds in the earlier 
_ months of the year. A few pairs nest; and the bird is in song 
