﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  79 
  

  

  in, 
  a 
  house 
  in 
  Aberdeen 
  on 
  March 
  20th, 
  1900. 
  The 
  bird 
  is 
  

   now 
  in 
  my 
  possession. 
  

  

  Genus 
  SYLVIA, 
  Scopoli. 
  

  

  Sylvia 
  suecica, 
  Linn. 
  Red-spotted 
  Blue-throat. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  represented 
  by 
  a 
  single 
  specimen 
  that 
  flew 
  

   on 
  board 
  a 
  fisherman's 
  boat 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  a 
  Redstart 
  in 
  

   Aberdeen 
  Bay, 
  16th 
  May, 
  1872, 
  and 
  was 
  purchased 
  by 
  me 
  in 
  

   the 
  flesh 
  from 
  the 
  captor. 
  

  

  Sylvia 
  rubecula, 
  Linn, 
  Redbreast. 
  " 
  Robin." 
  

   " 
  Robin-Redbreast." 
  

  

  Resident 
  and 
  abundant 
  all 
  over 
  "Dee." 
  

  

  Sylvia 
  cinerea, 
  Bechstein. 
  Whitethroat. 
  

  

  Plentiful 
  in 
  all 
  suitable 
  localities 
  during 
  summer 
  through- 
  

   out 
  " 
  Dee." 
  

  

  Sylvia 
  curruca, 
  Linn. 
  Lesser 
  Whitethroat. 
  

  

  " 
  One 
  reported 
  by 
  George 
  Sim 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  shot 
  by 
  him 
  

   at 
  Gourdas, 
  Fyvie, 
  November 
  4th, 
  1880." 
  (Scottish 
  Naturalist, 
  

   vol. 
  i., 
  p. 
  13.) 
  

  

  Sylvia 
  atricapilla, 
  Linn. 
  Blackcap. 
  

  

  " 
  In 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Banchory 
  and 
  about 
  Ballater. 
  

   On 
  the 
  third 
  Septr., 
  1850, 
  I 
  found 
  in 
  a 
  bush 
  of 
  Prunus 
  padus 
  

   by 
  Braichley 
  Burn, 
  a 
  nest 
  with 
  four 
  eggs 
  which 
  had 
  long 
  

   been 
  deserted." 
  (MacGillivray.) 
  A 
  Blackcap 
  was 
  found 
  

   at 
  Don 
  -mouth 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  John 
  Proctor 
  in 
  1866. 
  That 
  

   gentleman 
  presented 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  writer, 
  in 
  whose 
  possession 
  it 
  

   still 
  is. 
  "One 
  seen 
  near 
  Fyvie 
  Castle, 
  27th 
  April, 
  1872; 
  

   one 
  at 
  Mill 
  of 
  Tifty, 
  October, 
  1872." 
  (MS. 
  list, 
  George 
  Sim, 
  

   Fyvie.) 
  " 
  Once 
  seen 
  by 
  me 
  near 
  Scultie 
  Farm, 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  

   found 
  near 
  Turriff." 
  (S. 
  Burnett's 
  MS.) 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  N. 
  S. 
  A., 
  p. 
  537, 
  list 
  of 
  birds 
  for 
  the 
  parish 
  of 
  

  

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