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DISTRIBUTION OF THE CHIFF-CHAFF IN THE CLYDE AREA, 49 
On the Doon Water I have heard it at Doonfoot and Cam- 
busdoon* (Annals of the Andersonian Nat, Soc., Vol. II., pt. 1, 
p. 32). Mr. J. Robertson visited the Doon, below Auchendrane, 
at my suggestion, on 26th March, 1894, and reported its occur- 
rence in four localities as the result of his day’s observation. 
On the Water of Ayr it was noted at an excursion of the 
Andersonian Naturalists’ Society to Auchincruive in April this 
year, and it was heard on the Coyle Water on the same occasion. 
It had been reported to me the previous year by Mr. Wm. Adam, 
Jun., from a locality a few miles from Ayr. 
- In the Irvine Valley it occurs as far up as Lanfine estate, near 
Darvel, as I learn from Mr. Robert Wilson; and Mr. John 
Robertson reported its occurrence at Dundonald Glen some years 
‘ago, where, in his company, I have since heard it. ; 
In a list of birds of the Parish of Beith, by Messrs. Matthew 
Barr artd John Craig, it is included as a nesting species. 
The Rey. David Landsborough, of Kilmarnock, informs me that 
about 1840 the Chiff-chaff nested in his father’s manse garden at 
Stevenston. Mr. Landsborough says it appeared to get frequent 
at that time.f 
RENFREWSHIRE.—Taking up the record at Lochwinnoch, on the 
Ayrshire boundary, we find that in this parish it is a familiar 
bird, as mentioned in these 7’ransactions (Vol. IV., N.S., p. 363), 
‘some seven males being heard in the course of a Saturday 
afternoon’s ramble in Castle Semple grounds, and it occurs in the 
Skiff Wood, above Howwood,-in the same parish. Mr. John 
Lang, of Greenock, has reported it to occur at Duchall, near 
Kilmaleolm. The late Mr. Morris Young, of the Paisley Museum, 
told me that it was formerly not uncommon in a wood at Rushylie, 
two miles east of Erskine Ferry, and that he had taken its nest 
and eggs there. 
In the political division known as East Renfrewshire, a list of 
the birds of which, by Mr. John Robertson and the writer, 
* Mr, J. Robertson has reminded me that on the date we visited Cam- 
busdoon he heard it at Newark Castle in that neighbourhood. 
+ In passing through Eglinton Castle grounds a few days after reading 
% this paper, I heard the Chiff-chaff calling at five places. The weather, it 
_ should be stated, was blustering and unfavourable for successful observation. 
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