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Phylloscopus trochilits. — Summer visitant, decidedly local, 

 and much scarcer than in Eigg or Mull, where I have seen 

 great numbers. 



AcTocephahis schcenohce^iits. — Summer visitant, but rare. 

 Captain Cameron examined a clutch of eggs of the Sedge 

 Warbler, taken by a relative at Tallisker in 1884.^ 



Locustella ncevia. — Summer visitant, but scarce ; observed 

 every year by Captain Macdonald at Waternish ; noticed by 

 Mr Lees in the Broadford district ; present at Uig. 



Accentor modularis. — Eesident ; thinly distributed ; occa- 

 sionally nesting in very lonely situations. 



Acredula caudata. — Eesident; observed occasionally by 

 Captain Macdonald, Mr T. Eobertson, and Mr Dixon ; but I 

 have not myself yet met with it. 



Parus major. — Casual visitant. Mr J. Mackenzie, jun., 

 observed a single Great Tit near Dun vegan in the winter 

 of 1884-85. 



Parus ater. — Eesident ; fairly numerous in the Dunvegan 

 woods. 



Parus co&ruleus. — Eesident ; Mr T. Eobertson shot a Blue 

 Tit in the breeding season at Greshornish, and Captain 

 Macdonald has seen it from time to time. Miss Macleod 

 feeds a company of Blue Tits at Dunvegan Castle all the 

 year round. 



Sitta ccesia. — Accidental visitant. During the spring of 

 1885 two Nuthatches appeared at Waternish, haunting the 

 trees around the house, and being very tame, afforded Captain 

 Macdonald excellent opportunities for observing their habits, 

 which he described to me with perfect fidelity. [I happen 

 to be particularly well acquainted with the Nuthatch both in 

 England and on the Continent, and have also kept several 

 tame Nuthatches in confinement.] Captain Macdonald did 

 not molest the birds, being perfectly satisfied with his con- 

 tinued observations, and assures me that these Skye birds 

 agreed in every particular with a water-colour sketch I 

 sent him taken from an Oxon specimen. I should have 

 expected the form to have been Sitta europoea, but this is 



1 I observed the Sedge Warbler, apparently breeding, near Dunvegan, in 

 July 1886. 



