504 Additional Notes on Birds, by George Muirhead. 



Bridge. After watching for sometime, I had the satisfaction of 

 seeing the bird come out from the middle of the tree and alight 

 on a branch close to where I stood, and discovered that it was a 

 Chiff-chaff. I had not previously heard or seen this bird at Pax- 

 ton, but a friend of mine, Mr Arthur H. Evans, of Cambridge, 

 who is well acquainted with birds, while staying with me here a 

 short time previous to the above date, heard, one morning, the 

 Chiff-chaff's note in the Old Heronry Wood, in the Policy. I 

 heard another Chiff-chaff here a week or two later, and am in- 

 clined to think that it would have its nest in the Policy woods. 



Meadow Pipit (Anthits pratensis). — When I was curling at 

 Eoulden Curling Pond one day, about the middle of December 

 last, a Meadow Pipit came into the house in which the curling 

 stones are kept. It was so weak that it could not fly. 



Skylark {Alauda arvensis). — The Skylark is by no means 

 plentiful about Paxton. On 29th January last, I saw large flocks 

 of Skylarks on the fields of Lamberton Farm, near the seaside. 

 They had frequented the fields there during the stormy weather 

 in December and January, as the ground was nearly clear of 

 snow there, owing to its being close to the sea. 



Common Bunting (JEmberiza miliaria). — This bird seems to have 

 favourite localities. I generally see it on the hedges at the side 

 of the road between the National School and the drinking trough 

 on the Berwick road. I saw several on 29th January near Lam- 

 berton Toll. We never see it in this immediate locality. 



Chaffinch {Fringilla ccelebs). — Most of our Chaffinches disap- 

 peared when the storm came on in December last, and during its 

 continuance few were seen. -I think they went to the neighbour- 

 hood of the sea, where the snow did not lie. 



Brambling [Fringilla montifringilla). — Not a single Mountain- 

 finch has been seen here this winter. In 1876 they were very 

 numerous, but I saw only a few in the winter of 1877. 



Greenfinch (Coccothraustes Chloris). — This bird has been very 

 plentiful in the stackyards here, all through the late stormy 

 weather. 



Bullfinch (Pgrrhula vulgaris). — Great numbers of Bullfinches 

 have been caught during the snow, this winter, by bird fanciers 

 in the neighbourhood. They took them by means of trap-cages 

 and a call-bird. 



Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). — Immense numbers of Starlings 



