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to Mr. Macleay in Inverness. It may be remarked that Rein- 

 deer horns are always, so far as we have seen, smooth, never 

 having any of those furrows and corrugations generally present 

 in those of the Eed Deer. 



Pratincola rubicola (.) Stone-chat. 



Mr. Monteith-Ogilvie sends us an instance of another pair of these 

 birds, which he observed evidently nesting. We think these 

 particulars well worth recording, as the bird has hitherto not 

 been considered as breeding in the Orkneys : 



"June 4th, 1890. Drove to Lesbidale, and there started 

 our tramp. After going about a mile and a half, ascending 

 slowly all the time, saw a pair of Stone-chats in a patch of 

 tolerably long heather. Gunn said he had never seen birds 

 like them before, and asked me what they were. I should 

 think they had got young birds in the heather, certainly either 

 young or eggs. They were very anxious while we were there, 

 and were seldom more than twenty yards away. I only spent 

 ten minutes looking for the nest, as I thought it probable they 

 had three-parts-grown young birds in the heather, being such 

 early breeders, and I was anxious to get on. ..." 



Phylloscopus trochilus (L.). Willow Wren. 



Mr. Rankeh heard a Willow Wren singing at Birstane on May 

 22d, 1890. 



Troglodytes parvulus, Koch. Wren. 



Harvie-Brown and Eagle Clarke were much struck with the great 

 size and light appearance of the Orcadian Wren when they 

 visited the islands in June 1890. 



Coracias garrulus, L. Roller. 



Mr. Mackay of the Masons' Arms, Stromness, informs us that a 

 Roller now in his possession was shot by Mr. Alexander Young, 



