Contribution to Vertebrate Fauna of West Ross-shire. 397 
Erithacus rubecula (Zinn.), REDBREAST. 
Generally distributed, and abundant in the wooded districts. 
Sylvia cinerea (Bechst.). WHITETHROAT. 
Thinly distributed in bushy places, but not common, and 
confined to low elevations near the sea. Applecross, 
Torridon, Kishorn. 
Regulus cristatus, Koch. GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 
Fairly common as a resident, wherever there are conifers. 
Phylloscopus trochilus (Zinn.). WILLOW WREN. 
Summer visitant. Abundant everywhere in suitable 
localities. By far the most common of the woodland 
summer birds. A pair will be found wherever a few birches 
clothe the hillside. 
Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechst.). Woop WREN. 
Summer visitant. This species, which has hitherto not 
been recorded as observed in West Ross, was seen and heard 
on several occasions during the early summer of 1892 in the 
woods at the head of Loch Shieldaig, and at Arrin-na- 
chruinneach, on the southern shore of Outer Loch Torridon. 
This fact is an important addition to the existing evidence 
as to the distribution of the Wood Wren in Britain, no 
record of the bird so far to the north-west having been 
before obtained. 
Acrocephalus schenobenus (Linn.). SEDGE WARBLER. 
Summer visitant, rare and local. Only observed at the 
head of Loch Torridon, and at Courthill, Kishorn. 
Accentor modularis (Jinn.). HEDGE SPARROW. 
Abundant, and found in the most unlikely situations, as 
the rocky sea-shores, or on islets in mountain lochs. 
