2876 Birds. 



The Wood Warbler is to be met with in most of the old woods, es- 

 pecially in those situated on a declivity. The wooded banks of the 

 Jed, consisting chiefly of oaks, are a favourite haunt of this bird. 



The Willow Warbler is common everywhere, and the air rings with 

 its " silvery bells " from May till July. 



Note. — 'The chiff-chaff does not occur in Roxburghshire. 



The Pied and Gray Wagtails are common and plentiful. The 

 great body of these birds leave us in winter, but stragglers are occa- 

 sionally seen during that season. 



The Tree Pipit is common, and its joyous notes may be heard in 

 favourable localities almost everywhere. 



The Meadow Pipit is common on uplands and moors. It leaves 

 us in autumn. 



The Sky Lark also leaves our fields and pastures at the approach 

 of winter, and is not seen again till the first mild weather in spring. 



The Black-headed Bunting breeds in our tall hedgerows and 

 thickets in the neighbourhood of water, but leaves us in winter, with 

 the exception of an occasional straggler among a flock of chaffiuches 

 and yellowhammers. 



The Cuckoo is rather local, occurring principally in the vicinity of 

 moors and uplands. 



Of the Hirundinidse, the Swallow and Sand Alar tin are common, 

 but the House Martin and Swift are more local and less plentiful. 

 The swift haunts some of the red-sandstone scaurs on the Jed. 



The Nightjar is rare. T have only seen two examples of this bird. 



The Golden Plover resorts to our moors and uplands for the purpose 

 of breeding, and leaves us in the end of autumn. 



The Curlew does the same, but leaves us much earlier, generally in 

 the beginning or middle of August. 



The Peewit breeds in our fields and uplands, and afterwards fre- 

 quents low-lying pastures in flocks till the beginning of winter, when 

 it leaves us altogether. 



The Ringed Plover is rare, but sometimes breeds by our larger 

 rivers. The dotterel is not found in this district. 



The Common Sandpiper is abundant by our river-sides. It departs 

 early in August. 



The Landrail is common, and its " craik, craik," is to be heard in 

 almost every clover-field, especially in the vicinity of a river. 



The Black-headed Gull breeds in various localities throughout the 

 county, but the great resort of this species, the Moss, at Ancrum, in 



