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History and Sport in Moray," mentions his having found it 

 breeding, and by no means uncommon, near Elgin, where he 

 for some time resided. The Eev. Dr Gordon, of Birnie, also 

 informs me, that he has notes of its occurrence at Main in 

 1838, and Waulkmill in 1844, both near Elgin, and mentions 

 Waterford on the west, and Cassieford on the east, of Forres, 

 as localities where it has also been observed. In 1872, 

 Sheriff Mackenzie, now of Tain, discovered a smaU colony 

 of this species breeding at Dornoch, in Sutherland, and 

 obtained several clutches of their eggs; but he has just written 

 me, that since that date they have quite disappeared from 

 that locality. He, however, in September 1875, saw a single 

 specimen at Strathpeffer, in the county of Cromarty, where 

 he thinks it may probably be found breeding. He also 

 mentions having, so long ago as the spring of 1847, shot a 

 specimen in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, and presented 

 it to Professor Macgillivray, whose natural history class he 

 was then attending, and who pronounced it to have been the 

 first specimen known to him as having been got in Scotland. 

 Neither of my correspondents, Mr Sim or Mr Beveridge, of 

 Aberdeen, however, have known of its occurrence there in 

 recent years. The Eev. Dr Joass, of Golspie, informs me 

 that he once observed the tree sparrow near his house there 

 in the breeding season, but failed to find the nest. From the 

 Eev. Mr Stewart, of Nether Lochaber, I learn, through ]\ir 

 Harvie-Brown, that he some years ago met with five 

 individuals of this species in Strathardle, Perthshire, about 

 two miles north of Bridge of Gaily, feeding on the road side, 

 and heard of it being still a summer visitant there some time 

 afterwards. He has not seen them on the west coast. Mr 

 James Keddie, assistant to Mr Sanderson, one of our local 

 naturalists, tells me, that the tree sparrow is found in small 

 numbers at St Michael's Wood, near Leuchars, Fifeshire. 



Perhaps the district in which it has hitherto been best 

 known is that of East Lothian, more particularly in the 

 neighbourhood of North Berwick, where it was first discovered 

 many years ago, by the late John Nelson on the farm of 

 Gastleton, since which time, as Mr Gray has informed us, 

 it has been observed on several other farms in the same 



