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many parts of the south of Scotland we know 

 from the observations of Macgillivray and the 

 late Sir William Jardine ; but we have yet to 

 learn whether it penetrates to the Highlands or 

 visits the Hebrides. According to Selby, it is 

 found throughout the greater part of Scotland ; 

 but Mr. Robert Gray, in his recently published 

 " Birds of the West of Scotland," is disposed to 

 think that it is not commonly distributed. It is, 

 as he says, very difficult to judge of the com- 

 parative numbers of so shy a bird, as it is even 

 less frequently noticed, save by the patient 

 observer, than some other species of greater 

 rarity. "In the sheltered and wooded districts 

 of the midland and southern counties," he adds, 

 "it is one of the most attractive songsters, 

 tuning its loud and gleeful pipe on the top of 

 some fruit tree an hour or two after daybreak, 

 and again about the dusk of the evening. 

 These love notes, however, are not of long con- 

 tinuance, for the bird becomes silent after the 

 young are hatched, unless a second brood is 

 reared, when the same wild yet mellow black- 



