PLATE II 

 WHEATEAR. Saxicola csnanlhe 



May 20///, 1896. The nest depicted in this Plate was under a large stone 

 beside the stalker's path up Glen More, Isle of Mull. I was going up the 

 Glen with the keeper to photograph one of the eagles' nests on Lochbuie 

 estate, when the Wheatear flew out from under the stone; it was such a 

 simple matter to raise the stone that I took a photograph of the nest, which 

 was a very typical one. The whole nest was entirely constructed of dry moor- 

 grass, the coarser grass being used for the outside and the very fine stuff 

 as a lining. 



The birds were in a dreadful state of anxiety all the time we were at the 

 nest, and flew round and round us, calling incessantly with their loud clacking 

 note. 



The Wheatear is very common on all the islands on the west coast of 

 Scotland. I saw its nest on most of the Garvelloch group, on lona, and its 

 attached group, the Soa Islands ; also on the Treshnish Islands, where I 

 found no less than five nests on Lunga Island, and saw many of the birds 

 on all the others. One nest on the Dutchman's Cap was under a stone, right 

 in the middle of a large colony of Puffins, and under the same stone was a 

 burrow occupied by one of these comical-looking little birds. 



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