7O THE BIRDS OF ROUKEN GLEN PARK. 
Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla, L.)—On 27th January, 
1907, I saw a fine male brambling feeding along with some 
chaffinches in the park ; and on gth, and again on 16th February, 
I saw a single bird roosting in small thorn trees, where many 
greenfinches and chaffinches roost in winter. On one of these 
dates, 9th February, about twenty birds, which were probably 
bramblings, were disturbed from a clump of evergreens, where 
they had gone to roost, but in the bad light, just at dusk, I could 
not see them sufficiently well to make identification certain. On 
8th April, a late date for this winter visitor, Mr. John Paterson 
saw about a dozen bramblings on a lime tree near the waterfall, 
sunning themselves in bright, golden light towards sundown. 
Golden-eye (Clangula glaucion (L.) )—On 1oth February, 1907, 
I saw a young male golden-eye on Deaconsbank Dam. I subse- 
quently saw the same bird there on several occasions. It had 
thrown aside much of its usual shyness and seemed quite at ease, 
diving for food and associating with a few pochards that visited 
the dam frequently. 
Golden Plover (Charadrius pluvialts, L.)—This species occurs 
in some numbers in winter in the fields on the east and west sides 
of the park, and is often seen passing over, although it is not likely 
to alight, as it is a bird of the open. 
Curlew (Vumenius arquata (L.)—I find from my notes that on 
1st May, 1898, I saw a curlew, which was calling as it flew west at 
a low elevation over the park. I had overlooked this note when 
I read the paper to the society. 
In conclusion, I may say that this summer (1907), after the 
park has been open for over a year and been visited by hundreds 
of thousands of persons, I could find no appreciable difference in 
its bird life. Of the seventy-eight species recorded I have 
observed sixty-two this year. 
I could not reckon the chiffchaff among the birds that breed 
in the glen until this season, when two pairs of this somewhat 
local warbler remained to nest. 
