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its Anglo-Saxon name, "Auld" or "Aud," and is one of 

 the genuine remains of the Teutonic settlers here. "Eild," 

 old, Douglas, A.S. eald, Jamieson. Eld, var. Yld A.S. age, 

 Bosworth. It used to be the cow pasture of the householders 

 of Oockburnspath, who could keep a cow. 



Mr Ferguson has kindly sent me a list of the Birds seen 

 in the course of our walk. It is interesting, if it is not 

 extensive. 



Saxicola (Enanthe — Wheatear. 



Anthus obscurus — Eock Pipit. 



Pratincola Ruhetra — VVhinchat, near Thornton Bridge. 



Linota cannabina — Linnet. 



Emberiza miliaria — Common Bunting. 



Farm Britannicus — Cole Tit. 



Motacilla lugubris — Pied Wagtail. 



Sylvia cinerea — White Throat. 



Phylloscopus Trochilus — Willow Wren. 



Hirundo riparia — Sand Martin. 



Hirundo urbica — Common Martin, which nests on the clijSs 



along the coast. 

 Larus argentatus — Herring Gull. 

 Larus ridibundus — Black-headed Gull, nests in marshes on 



Coldingham Moor, but these Gulls at Dunglass came 



from more inland country than Coldingham Moss. 

 Hamatopus ostralegus — Oyster Catcher, seen in small parties 



on the coast beyond Billsdean, as far as Eedheugh, 



and is understood to breed near the mouth of the 



Tyne, to the west of Belhaven. 

 ^gialitis kiaticulus, or the Ringed Plover, which breeds 



near Thornton-loch, was not seen. 



Mr Ferguson also mentioned a circumstance of considerable 

 ornithological interest, which he had himself observed. He 

 narrated that though there is no record of the Dendrocopus 

 major, (the Great Spotted Woodpecker), having bred in 

 Scotland for upwards of a century, or ever in Berwickshire, 

 yet it had bred in Duns Castle woods this year.* The nest 

 was discovered by a workman, about the beginning of the 

 second week of June, in a decaying Ash tree of comparatively 



* It has also bred in a strip of wood between the Tower farm 

 and the Pease dean. 



