3216 THE’ ZOOLOGIST— SEPTEMBER, 1872. 
August. Its cheery presence and pleasing song enlivens the 
rugged hill-sides and cheerless tracts of stone over which the 
traveller by land in Feroe pursues his track. I have found it 
nesting not far from the shore, and at every elevation except on 
the bare tops of the highest mountains. The nest is usually 
placed under a stone, and in several instances I detected it by 
noticing the worn track which the birds had made in passing and 
re-passing to the nest. I have taken nests with six and seven 
eggs in them, and have had them brought to me with eight. 
21. Phyllopneuste trochilus, Linn. Willow Warbler.— Herr 
Miiller records the appearance of this bird twice in Faroe as a 
rare autumnal straggler. 
22. Regulus cristatus, Koch. Goldencrested Wren.—During 
their autumnal migration, this species appears not unfrequently 
to be blown on to the Faeroe Islands. Miiller records them 
as having been procured in October, 1852, October, 1857; and 
on the 21st October, 1867, he received a single specimen shot at 
Skaalefiord. The wind had for a long time prior been changing 
from southerly to westerly. 
23. Regulus ignicapillus, Brehm. Firecrested Wren.—Is included 
on the authority of Herr Miiller (‘ Feroernes Fuglefauna,’ p. 7). 
24. Ampelis garrulus, Linn, Waxwing.—Made its appearance 
on the 3rd November, 1852, in the Governor’s garden at Thorshavn ; 
and Herr Miiller informs me that a pair were observed in the 
same place on the 29th October, 1866. 
25. Motacilla alba, Linn. White Wagtail. Native name, Erla 
Kongsdottur.—Svabo writes that it builds its nests in mud-walls, and 
among stones, laying four and five eggs, and sits for three weeks. 
Landt mentions that it “is seen first in May, and the inhabitants 
then conclude that the expected trading-vessels have arrived at 
some of the islands. A few days after its arrival it in some 
places disappears again, but in other places it builds its nest 
almost in the same manner as the wheatear.” Miiller has noticed 
it in the islands from spring to autumn, but has not found it 
breeding. On the island of Skuoe, on the 23rd May, 1872, I 
noticed one feeding in a dirty gutter in the village, its spotless 
plumage not much in character with the locality where it was pro- 
curing food. In Eide, Osteroe, on the 11th June, 1872, I noticed 
another, which was undoubtedly breeding, for it carried away food 
in its mouth as if for its young. M. Yarrellii has not yet been 
observed in Feroe. 
