50 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
appeared in the Annals of Scottish Natural History, October, 
1895, we have never been able to trace its presence until the 
present year, when it has turned up in two localities. The first 
locality, at Giffnock, is a small wood, which has been thoroughly 
investigated for many years each nesting season, and we are quite 
certain that its occurrence there this year, where Mr. Robertson 
has found its nest on a clump of honeysuckle eighteen inches from 
the ground, points to an extension of its range. The second 
locality is at Giffnock also, about half-a-mile distant from the 
first. 
BurtesHire.—The Chiff-chaff appears to have been first recorded 
for Arran by Mr. Wm. Evans in 1895 (Annals of Scottish 
Natural History, p. 195), and it was heard in the following year 
by some of the members of this Society who visited Goatfell in 
May, as mentioned in these Zransactions (Vol. 1V., N.S., yp. 365). 
Dr. Niel Fullarton, of Lamlash, sends me the following valuable 
note on this species :—‘‘ The Chiff-chaff I have noticed yearly for 
upwards of thirty years. It is distributed all over the east side 
of the island, from Lagg to Brodick. In the woods above Lagg I 
sawit . . . first last year. Nearly every season since I have 
settled here [Lamlash] (1877), I have come across its nest in some 
part of the district above-mentioned.” 
In Bute, I am informed by Mr. John Orr of this Society, it 
occurs in the wood south of Kilchattan Bay. 
ARGYLLSHIRE. —At excursions of this Society in 1895 to Castle 
Toward and Benmore estates, as recorded in these Zransactions 
(Vol. IV., N.S., pp. 368, 369), I heard a single bird calling in 
each case. 
DUMBARTONSHIRE.—At an excursion of the Ornithological 
Section of the Andersonian Naturalists’ Society to Rosneath 
(April, 1895), some four males were heard calling. Mr. James 
Lumsden says of it, in A Guide to the Natural History of Loch 
Lomond and Neighbourhood (1895), that it is “not a common 
bird in any part of the district.” It is mentioned as occurring 
at Camis Eskan, near Helensburgh, in the report of the visit 
of the Andersonian Naturalists’ Society to that place (20th April, 
1895). 
