BIRDS. 



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Mr. Marshall, however, found one upon the railway embankment 

 near Stanley, and that one was deposited in the Perth Museum, and 

 is there now. This one was found on the 6th September 1879. 

 Horn quoted the account, and then Col. Drummond Hay verified 

 the facts, included it (see Scot. Nat), and secured it for the Perth 

 Museum. 



Dr. Dewar enters it as an " occasional visitant," and one is given 

 as having been got on May 17, 1896 (see "Movements of Birds," 

 Annals Scot Nat Hist, 1897, p. 146). 



Col. Drummond Hay relates that he had long been under the con- 

 viction that the Wryneck was in the habit of frequenting the old 

 trees at Ballathy, near Stanley, as he had repeatedly heard its 

 " unmistakable tee-tee-tee " proceeding from the boles of some of the 

 old standard oak-trees in the recently cut coppice woods near the 

 bank of the river ; and he adds : "If memory serves me right, I have 

 heard the same call-note in the Faskally Woods in Atholl." Col. 

 Campbell states that Col. Drummond Hay had often told him (Col. 

 Campbell) the same.^ 



Mr. W. Berwick informs me that the Wryneck is an occasional 

 visitor to the north of Fife, and that one was shot in Gilston Woods. 



Family ALCEDINID^. 



Alcedo ispida, L. Kingfisher. 



Resident. Common. Breeds. 



The true Kingfisher is meant in the old Statistical Account of Monzie 

 parish (vol. xv. p. 244). The author shows this, as he includes the 

 Water-Crow, "Cinclus," and adds, "at times the Kingfisher." 



visit to the island actually picked up some of these feathers, which were afterwards 

 restored to the recorded specimen. Another Wryneck was obtained at North Unst 

 lighthouse on the 9th September of that same year (see Migration Schedules for 1885). 

 I think these notes are of sufficient interest as side-lights to be mentioned in this place. 

 As I write (Dec. 28, 1905) quite a number are placed on record as occurring in Scotland 

 (see Annals Scot. Xat. Hist., Jan. 1906). 



Mr. Marshall possesses in his local collection one which however came from Shetland ; 

 and I mention the fact here because Mr. Marshall's collection is for the most part 

 local, and he has given me full particulars of all his specimens, so that I hope no 

 confusion may arise at later dates as to the few specimens he has whicii have been 

 brought from a distance. 



^ I would have been inclined to describe as unmistakable the *' falsetto Kestrel like 

 cry " of the Wryneck. 



