52 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
‘it is not uncommon in roadside plantations near Glasgow,” is 
entirely unconfirmed. In Mr. Henry C. Young’s “ List of Birds 
which breed in the Vicinity of Glasgow,” in the Motes on the 
Fauna and Flora of the West of Scotland (Glasgow, 1876), the 
only statement regarding the occurrence of the Chiff-chaff is that 
just quoted from Gray. The statement in Gray’s article on ‘‘The 
@Birds of Glasgow and its Vicinity,” in the publication last named, 
that the “ Chiffchaff is moderately common in hedges a short 
distance westwards from the Botanic Gardens,” however cate- 
gorical, is a curious one. 
Referring to the occurrence of this species in the districts 
bordering on the Clyde area, we know it to abound at Castle 
Kennedy, WicrownsaireE (Report, Hucursion <Andersonian 
Naturalists’ Society, 20th May, 1897). In K1rkcUDBRIGHTSHIRE 
it is “everywhere scarce and local” (Robert Service, Zhe 
Vertebrate Zoology of Kirkcudbrightshire, 1896). In Dum- 
FRIESSHIRE Mr. Service informs me that he thinks it is scarcer 
than in Galloway. 
Tn the area drained by the Forth, Mr. Evans tells me he knows 
of it “as a regular summer visitor to the extreme east and 
extreme west” (7th August, 1896). 
In Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley’s Vertebrate Pawna of 
Argyll and the Inner Hebrides (1892) it is excluded. 
Summarising its distribution in “Clyde,” it is, as far as we know 
at present, most numerous in the west of the area, and especially 
so in the south-west. This agrees with its abundance in Wigtown- 
shire (Solway area) at Castle Kennedy, as recently announced. 
East of Glasgow it appears to be rare, and this agrees with its 
small numbers in Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire, It is 
interesting, in connection with its distribution in the area under 
review, to bear in mind that it breeds in every Irish county, and, 
while scarce in some eastern English counties, Norfolk for instance, 
it is numerous in the south and south-west, especially in Somerset- 
shire and Devonshire. 


