

PLATE I 

 ROCK PIPIT. Anthus obscurus 



June 28^/1, 1893. As I was walking among the old buildings on the Bass 

 Rock, a Rock Pipit flew out from a tuft of bladder campion growing out of 

 a crack in the rock, and when I went up to investigate, I found the nest with 

 four fully fledged young birds in it. 



The nest was beautifully concealed, and I would never have suspected 

 its presence there, had not the old bird flown out. All the time I was taking 

 the photograph the old birds fluttered around in a dreadful state of anxiety, 

 uttering their call-note incessantly and hovering in the air above my head. 



