BIRDS. 



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singing between Crieff and Comrie, and a few more were identified 

 whilst driving past at Dunkeld, at Xewburgh in Fife, and again near 

 Dunalastair. However, the weather was so unpropitious that I may 

 easily have missed seeing or hearing others. 



In the central valleys of Perthshire they are fairly frequent in some 

 seasons,but Mr. Charles Mackintosh considered them to be less abundant 

 in 1905 than usual in Strathbraan, or in the neighbourhood generally. 



Anthus obscurus {Lath.). Rock-Pipit. 



Resident. Common. Breeds. Solitary. 



Common along the coast-lines and in the immediate vicinity of 

 the sea-cliffs. Rarely met with far inland at any season. 



Curiously, it seems to have been omitted from any of Col. 

 Drummond Hay s lists of 1860. 



But Mr. J. Milne had found the nest near Stonehaven, and 

 Dr. Dewar enters it in his list as " quite common all along the 

 coast-line," as indeed I have myself witnessed between Aberdeen and 

 the south end of the Fowlsheugh cliffs. 



Mr. Eedle's note that it is found along the "lower parts of 

 mountains about Rannoch " (Zool., 1871, p. 2656) cannot, I believe, 

 be seriously entertained. 



Anthus richardi, Fieill. Richard's Pipit. 



We are indebted to Millais for the only record of this species. He 

 writes me as follows : "So far as I know, the immature Richard's 

 Pipit shot by me at Dalguise on August 2, 1880, is the only specimen 

 that has occurred in Scotland. The bird was sitting calling on a paling 

 skirting the Dalguise Ixickwater, and I should have passed it but for 

 its very loud pipity note. After watehing it for a few seconds I saw 

 that the bird was much too lar£:e for even a Rock-Pipit, and so 

 killed it." 



The original record of this specimen will be found in the Zoologist 

 (1886, p. 26, q.v.). 



Family ORIOLIDM. 



Orioius galbuia, X. Golden Oriole. 



Rare. Occasional ^^sitant. 



Two in the Montrose Museum bear no authentication — alas ! like 

 many things there deposited. They are, however, said to have been 

 got in that neighbourhood. The curator only "believes" that they 

 were got there, and are supposed to have been obtained about 1855 

 (as stated in Dr. Dewar's list). Col. Drummond Hay mentions "one 



