492 Mr. C. Collier on the Birds 



Ring-Ousel. Turdus torquatus. 



These birds arrived between the 10th and the 18th of April, 

 and were quite common on the high ground, there being one 

 or more nests by the side of every burn, besides many 

 scattered along the rough heathery banks. One pair bred 

 for three consecutive years in a bank within a few feet of an 

 old nest. At the end of July and during August these 

 birds to a great extent left the high moorlands, both old 

 and young frequenting the large bracken- beds on the lower 

 ground, some of which arc only a few feet above the sea-level. 

 The number of nests was about the same every year. 



Wheateak. Saxicola amanthe. 



Appears in numbers from the 10th to the 12th of April 

 and spreads all over the island. I have found some nests on 

 the east side at an elevation of twelve hundred and fifty feet, 

 and others only a few feet above high-water mark, one only 

 two feet above. The nests are generally placed under stones. 



Whinchat. Pratincola rubetra. 



Very scarce : a few were seen in the early summer. One 

 pair remained all through the summer of 1901. I never 

 found the nest, but saw the young on June 23rd. 



Stonechat. Pratincola rubicola. 



Quite a common bird and resident ; nearly every large 

 sheltered corrie holds a pair. The young disappear in the 

 autumn, but I have noticed no additional arrivals in the 

 spring, the breeding birds being about the same in number 

 every year. 



Robin. Erithacus rubecula. 



Scattered in the woods and round the crofts and shore, 

 but not very numerous. There was a nest for several seasons 

 in a small hollow in a beech-tree close to the house. I 

 removed the nest after the young had flown, and the same 

 site was used for four out of five years by a pair of Spotted 

 Flycatchers. 



Whitethroat. Sylvia cinerea. 



Only a stray visitor. I noticed it on May 30th, 189G, 



