ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM UPPER 

 COQUETDALE. 



By JOHN CORDEAUX, 



Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire l Member of the British Or)iithologists' Union; 

 and of the British Association Migration Committee ; Ss'c. 



"The following notes, having reference to the birds of Upper Coquet- 

 dale, were jotted down from time to time in my note-book during a 

 residence of some weeks at Harbottle, in the summer of 1884. For 

 any previous knowledge regarding the ornithology of Northumberland, 

 I am indebted to Mr. Hancock's ' Birds of Northumberland and 

 Durham,' Mr. C. M. Adamson's 'Scraps about Birds,' and a paper on 

 the ' Ornithology of Riding Mill-on-Tyne and neighbourhood,' by the 

 Rev. H. H. Slater, pubhshed in the Zoologist for 1884, pp. 92-106. 

 From personal observation as well as from sundry ' cracks ' with local 

 observers, keepers, and shepherds, I am convinced that at least with 

 reference to the wild and thinly-populated hill country along the 

 Scotch border, there remains room for further enquiry and investiga- 

 tion before a complete Hst of the avi-fauna of the district can be 

 drawn up. 



Missel Thrush, Turdus viscivorus L. 



Appears to be very common. During the last week in June 

 and first week in July I found them collected in large numbers 

 on the moors, where almost at every step one or more rose from 

 the long heather. These flocks appeared composed of young 

 birds of the year, 

 ^ing Ouzel, T. torquatus L. 



I saw a few young birds on the moors near Dove's Crag, 

 above Holystone, feeding on the berries of the mountain ash. 

 Dipper, Cinclus aquaticus Bechst. 



Extremely common on the Coquet and its tributaries to the 

 extreme limit of the Northumbrian border. 

 Wheatear, Saxicola cenanthe L. 



Common everywhere in Cheviot, where the country is open 

 and stony, both on the moors and the bracken-covered slopes of 

 the hills. 



Whinchat, Pratincola rubetra L. 



Likewise very common about Harbottle, and throughout the 

 Cheviot. 

 Stonechat, P. rubicola L. 



Although resident, is by no means common ; I only once 

 saw it. 



Dec. 1884. 



