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known by their call-note, which is plaintive, yet shrill, and quite 

 in keeping with the slender figure of the bird. It is found also on 

 some of the inner islands, being rather common in Islay, as I have 

 been informed by Mr Elwes, and likewise in some parts of Skye. 



The nest of this bird is a very beautiful structure, and is remark- 

 able for the extreme profusion of feathers it contains as a lining. 

 The late Professor Macgillivray had one in his possession which, 

 on being taken down, was found to contain 2379 feathers, belonging 

 chiefly to the pheasant, wood-pigeon, rook, and partridge, and 

 which, when shaken, were sufficient " to fill a hat of moderate 

 phrenological pretensions." 



Dr Saxby has met with the Long-Tailed Tit in Shetland, where, 

 however, it is of extremely rare occurrence. 



OBS. It may here not be out of place to state that the 

 BEARDED TIT (Calamophilus Uarmicus) is catalogued as a Forfar- 

 shire species in Don's fauna and flora of that county, published in 

 1813, and that a writer in London's Magazine of Natural History, 

 etc., for 1830, states that he saw a specimen at Inchinnan, in 

 Renfrewshire, where the river Gryfe joins the Clyde. 



JNSESSORES. AMPELID^E. 



DENTIR OS TR ES. 



THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



BOMBYCILLA GARRULA. 



THIS lively and beautiful bird may be said to be a frequent winter 

 visitant to the eastern counties, but in the midland and western 

 counties its appearance is extremely irregular and uncertain. It 

 is recorded by the Rev. W. Patrick, that a vast flock of waxwings 

 appeared in the haughs of Hamilton, in the winter of 1782. Three 

 specimens were shot there in 1830. 



I have not been able to trace the occurrence of this species on 

 any of the Outer Hebrides, but several specimens were seen and 

 shot in the Isle of Skye in 1850. It has likewise been obtained 

 in Argyleshire and Wigtownshire. A specimen which I saw was 

 taken alive at Portpatrick in the winter of 1866. Early in 

 December of that year, waxwings were observed in various parts 

 of Britain, in large flocks, greatly exceeding those of former years; 

 and from one or two correspondents I learned that these migratory 



