BIRDS. 



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another nest having been found in the neighbourhood" {Zool.^ 1896, 

 p. 24), and he repeats the same to me in lit., 4th October 1904. 



Looking over the small collection in the possession of Mr. J. Milne, 

 at Auchenblae, in 1905, I Avas shown a bright brick-dust coloured 

 egg, which I felt perfectly inclined to pronounce to be that of a 

 Grasshopper-Warbler. It was taken by Mr. Milne on the same day and 

 in the same place as he found the nine nests of the Sedge- Warbler. 



But one can never be too careful in making such pronouncements 

 in absence of an extensive series to compare with, as it is well known 

 to experienced oologists that variation takes most extraordinary 

 directions on many occasions. Perhaps Mr. Milne may set that, 

 however, at rest another season. 



Millais has never met with the species, except the one first 

 recorded as obtained by Mr. Malloch. 



I have no account of its presence around Guthrie or the lochs and 

 marshy fringes and snipe bogs of Fithie and Eescobie, though the 

 ground there seems admirably suited to its requirements. 



Family PANURID^. 



[Panurus biarmicus (L.). Bearded Tit or Bearded Reedling. 



In 1813 Don included it without remark. No one else to my knowledge has 

 given any scientific account of its presence in the area, nor am I aware of one 

 single other mention of it in Scotland worthy of occupying space here.] 



Family PARID^. 

 Acredula rosea (Blyth). Long-tailed Tit. 



Resident. Common. Breeds. Universal, if somewhat local — i.e. not 

 abundant, but of wide dispersal, or not conspicuously common. 



Travels in family parties to their feeding grounds. Roves, but 

 is not truly migratory. Appears to be somewhat less obtrusive in 

 the lowlands, except perhaps in autumn, or more often seen in the 

 up-country narrow-wooded glens (aucL Dr. T. F. Dewar, speaking 

 of the eastern portions of Forfar and Strathmore). 



Common in Glen Ogle and the Loch Earn district (Godfrey), in 

 the south. 



Sparingly dispersed along Loch Rannoch side, however, as ob- 

 served on the north side between Camusericht Farm and Kinloch ; 

 and equally in limited numbers about the hard -wood which skirts 

 the Black Wood of Rannoch on the opposite side of the loch. So far 

 as I can remember, and such notes as I have still remaining of my 



