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LoxiA CANNABINA (L.) ; Crossbill. — Very rare, but, I 

 believe, forty or fifty years ago a regular winter visitor. 



^GiOTHUS RUFESCENS (Vieill) ; Lesser Kedpole ; Gealan-lin. 

 — Comparatively rare. 



LiNOTA CANNABINA (L.) ; Linnet ; Gealan. — Very common. 



Emberiza miliaria (L.) ; Common Bunting. — Not common, 

 and becoming much rarer every year. 



Emberiza citrinella (L.); Yellow Bunting, Yellow Broom 

 Bird ; Bicidheag-hhealuidh. — Abundant. 



Emberiza schcenicla (L.) ; Eeed Bunting. — Very rare ; one 

 shot in 1876. 



Plectrophanes nivalis (L.); Snow Bunting. — Kare as a 

 rule. A great many occurred during the winter of 1874-75. 



Alauda arvensis (L.); Skylark; Uiseag ("exalted, digni- 

 fied, high-born"). — Still common, though very much on the 

 decrease. 



CucuLUS CANORUS (L.); Cuckoo. — Common, especially in 

 warm, dry years. They usually arrive about 28th April, and 

 depart in the beginning of July. 



CoLUMBA palumba (L.) ; King Dove; Colman-coille. — 

 Common, but chiefly in spring and summer. 



Phasianus colchicus (L.) ; Pheasant ; Easeag. — Abundant, 

 but only so within the last forty years. 



Perdix cinerea (Briss.) ; Partridge ; Cearc-thomain (" hen 

 of the knolls "). — Not common, which is probably due to the 

 fact of the absence of crop. 



Tetrao urogallus (L.); Capercailzie; Gabar-coille ("wood 

 horse"). — It may be interesting, as Perthshire is still the 

 stronghold of this species, to give a few particulars of its 

 restoration to the Callander district ; " In 1845 Mr Carnegie 

 of Stronvar obtained three female and two male birds, and 

 kept them alive for two years, when both the females died. 

 This led him to turn out the males, which were shortly 

 afterwards found dead. In 1856 they began to appear in the 

 pine woods of Laurick, at the south-east of the parish, but it 

 was not until 1860 that they became fairly estabhshed there." 

 A female was noticed for the first time in Leny woods, 

 just above Callander, in 1872, and in 1876 I have good 

 reason to believe that they bred there. " There is sufficient 



