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  THE 
  VERTEBRATE 
  FAUNA 
  OF 
  " 
  DEE." 
  

  

  at 
  Banchory-Ternan 
  (we 
  presume 
  the 
  Den 
  of 
  Leggert 
  in 
  

   Banchory-Devenick 
  is 
  meant), 
  and 
  at 
  Parkhouse." 
  (Gray's 
  

   Birds, 
  p. 
  97).] 
  

  

  " 
  Of 
  rare 
  occurrence 
  in 
  any 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  county 
  ; 
  . 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  

   several 
  times 
  met 
  with 
  it, 
  or 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  regular, 
  though 
  rare, 
  

   visitant. 
  I 
  once 
  found 
  a 
  disturbed 
  nest 
  with 
  eggs 
  in 
  July." 
  

   (S. 
  Burnett's 
  MS.) 
  " 
  Two 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  bird 
  were 
  seen 
  

   here, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  shot, 
  in 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  May." 
  

   (George 
  Sim, 
  Fyvie, 
  1872, 
  Scottish 
  Naturalist, 
  p. 
  226.) 
  

  

  Genus 
  ACROCEPHALUS, 
  Naum. 
  

   Acrocephalus 
  phragmitis, 
  Bechstein. 
  Sedge 
  Warbler. 
  

  

  MacGillivray 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  Sedge 
  Warbler 
  is 
  nowhere 
  

   common 
  in 
  Scotland, 
  although 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  and 
  middle 
  

   divisions 
  it 
  is 
  here 
  and 
  there 
  to 
  be 
  met 
  with." 
  (British 
  Birds, 
  

   vol. 
  ii., 
  p. 
  392.) 
  He 
  makes 
  no 
  mention 
  of 
  it 
  in 
  his 
  Natural 
  

   History 
  of 
  Deeside 
  and 
  Braemar. 
  

  

  Of 
  late 
  years 
  this 
  species 
  has 
  become 
  quite 
  plentiful 
  

   throughout 
  " 
  Dee," 
  and 
  its 
  fine 
  song 
  may 
  be 
  heard 
  in 
  the 
  calm 
  

   summer 
  evenings 
  and 
  far 
  into 
  the 
  night. 
  Indeed, 
  many 
  

   reports 
  have 
  reached 
  me 
  that 
  the 
  Nightingale 
  has 
  been 
  heard 
  

   in 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  Aberdeenshire 
  ; 
  but 
  on 
  investigation 
  

   it 
  has 
  always 
  been 
  found 
  that 
  the 
  "Sedge 
  Bird" 
  had 
  been 
  

   mistaken 
  for 
  "Sweet 
  Philomel." 
  I 
  have 
  found 
  the 
  nest 
  of 
  the 
  

   Sedge 
  Warbler 
  among 
  the 
  reeds 
  along 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  river 
  

   Ythan, 
  where 
  it 
  flows 
  through 
  the 
  Braes 
  of 
  Gight, 
  as 
  also 
  in 
  

   other 
  localities. 
  

  

  Genus 
  LOCUSTELLA, 
  Kemp. 
  

  

  Locustella 
  naevia, 
  BodJaert. 
  Grasshopper 
  Warbler. 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  never 
  but 
  once 
  met 
  with 
  this 
  species. 
  It 
  occurred 
  in 
  a 
  

   cover 
  of 
  small 
  stunted 
  Scots 
  -firs, 
  rank 
  heath, 
  and 
  whins 
  

   mixed, 
  in 
  Thorn's 
  Forest, 
  near 
  Kintore. 
  I 
  got 
  the 
  most 
  

   transient 
  glimpse 
  of 
  the 
  bird 
  while 
  it 
  was 
  alive 
  ; 
  but 
  my 
  

   attention 
  was 
  directed 
  to 
  it 
  by 
  its 
  strange 
  call 
  — 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  

   Shrew 
  Mouse, 
  but 
  much 
  louder. 
  As 
  it 
  was 
  killed 
  with 
  No. 
  6 
  

   shot, 
  it 
  was 
  too 
  much 
  battered 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  any 
  use 
  as 
  a 
  specimen, 
  

  

  