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Siskin. The lattei' were nesting in some numbers in the tall 

 forests near Kono, and at Wesenberg, but I could not spot 

 them. The former I thought I had got in my garden, where 

 a bird is always singing — a nest at the top of an apple-tree, 

 about 15 ft. from the ground, and near where I found the 

 nest last year with young. I got up to it, and to my sur- 

 prise found it was a Garden Warbler. One rather inter- 

 esting thing is that in my aviary here, on the verandah, -^I 

 have got a pair of Northern Bullfinches to nest, and the hen 

 is sitting on four eggs. I cannot see them well, but I fear 

 they all look " miniatures ^^ and not much larger than 

 Titmice eggs. 1 hope I am wrong, as one learns so much 

 by watching the nesting operations in captivity. I notice 

 the male takes no share in incubation. 



I have been trying to get skins of the Buzzards here, but 

 now all properties have been confiscated and divided up, the 

 birds of prey get no peace, and are already very scarce. I 

 found a pair of Buteo nesting, but they were undoubtedly 

 Buteo buteo. The interesting question is whether tlie smaller 

 form is '''vulpinus " or ^' ziiinnermanni."' 



R. F. Meiklejohn. 



18 Tventmann Street, 



Reval, Esthonia. 

 9 July, 1922. 



White-tailed Eagle on the Bass Rock. 



Sir, — In the first part of the ' Ootlieca Wolleyana/ pub- 

 lished in 1864, the following statement occurs on page 49 

 among the notes on the AVhite-tailed or Sea-Eagle, viz., 

 " It used to build on the Bass Rock, and long ago had two 

 breeding-places in Dumfriesshiie [Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 2, 

 vol. i. pp. 119 and 444], and even near Glasgow."" A number 

 of years ago I endeavoured to find out what historic or other 

 evidence Wolley could have had for the first part of this 

 statement, but met with no success. On turning to the 

 volume (for 1837) of the magazine cited, it was found — as 

 one would expect — to have reference to the Dumfriesshire 

 eyries, no allusion whatever being made to the Bass Rock. 



