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Killin, e.g. one about Glen Dochart side, 13th August; two on 23rd ; 

 one on 1st September; one in Glen Lochay, 28th August. We 

 would naturally expect at the time of year, and certainly a little 

 later, to find Siskins in flocks, frequenting, say, the outskirts of woods, 

 and alder and willow brakes by the streams. But the earlier broods 

 of the season may have gone wider afield. 



Ligurinus chloris (i.). Greenfinch. 



Might almost be considered gregarious. Eesident. Abundant. Breeds. 

 An ever-increasing species in all suitable parts of the area, roosting 

 in thick evergreens like Starlings, night after night, and in many 

 other kinds of thick and warm cover. 



Occurs from Fordoun in the east — and from further east in 

 Kincardine — to Glen Ogle in the south-west ; and north to the limit 

 of the suitable country up by Struan and the Garry, and among the 

 young plantations which have been springing up along the north side 

 of the river Garry and the Highland Railway ; in fact, one of our 

 most assertive species in the struggle for existence. In Glen Ogle, 

 however, in 190-4 it could hardly be considered as abundant as it is 

 in other more central and eastern districts. Nor can it be counted 

 as common in many of the minor central valleys of Perthshire. 



Coccothraustes vulgaris, Pall Hawfinch. 



Rare hitherto, and only a visitant till lately, of which more farther 

 on, q.v. 



Col. Drummond Hay records that two were shot near Murray's 

 Asylum, Perth, in the winter of 1860-1, and came into the posses- 

 sion of the Perth Museum, having been presented by Dr. Mackintosh, 

 who was the medical superintendent of the asylum at the time. But 

 later Col. Drummond Hay corrects this statement {Annals Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1895, p. 56), and says that ''the Hawfinches previously referred 

 to were shot in garden of Annat Lodge, Perth," by the gardener, on 

 the wall trees, in the severe winter of 1860-1, and were at once 

 taken to Dr. Mackintosh. This is therefore the correct account. 



In 1885 Col. Drummond Hay also records, on the authority of 

 Mr. P. D. Malloch, that the latter saw five close to Kinross (Forth), 

 and supposes that these may have been on passage northwards. 



In 1894 Dr. Dewar says simply in his careful list from the 

 Arbroath district, "Has been recorded. " 



To Mr. William Berry our thanks are due for placing on record 



