Io6 CORDEAUX: ORNITHOLOGY OF COQUETDALE. 



Redstart, Ruticilla phoenicurus L. 



Very common wherever there is suitable cover and hedgerows. 

 A favourite haunt is along the borders of the woods, where in 

 serried rank the tall straight red-stemmed Scotch firs stand like 

 a palisade ; seen hawking for insects from his point of vantage, 

 some broken branch projecting, from the trunk, and with a back- 

 ground of grey lichen, the male is an exceedingly pretty object, 

 well worth a few minutes' inspection with the binocular. 

 Whitetkroat, Sylvia rufa Bodd. 



Common. 

 Blackcap, S. atricapilla L. 



The same remark applies. 

 Willow Wren, Phylloscopus trocMlus L. 



Everywhere abundant. 

 Wood Wren, P. sibilatrix Bechst. 



I am certain I both saw and heard this pretty warbler at 

 Dewshill Wood, near Holystone. This wood is part of the old 

 Northumbrian forest, and full of old oak and beech, such as the 

 Wood Wren delights in. 

 Tree Creeper, Certhia familiaris T. 



Frequently seen in the firwoods. 

 Pied Wagtail, Motacilla lugubris Temm. 



Very numerous along the Coquet. 

 Grey Wagtail, M. melanope Pallas. 



Extremely common along the Coquet, and on the burns in the 

 hills. They do not remain in the winter. 

 Meadow Pipit, Anthus pratensis L. 



The Titlark is extremely common both on the moors and in 

 every part of Cheviot. 

 Tree Pipit, A. trivialis L. 



Also common in suitable localities. 

 Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa grisola L. 



Is common in the neighbourhood of Harbottle. 

 Pied Flycatcher, M. atricapilla L. 



From what was told me by the keeper and schoolmaster at 

 Harbottle, both of whom possess a good knowledge of local birds, 

 I have not the least doubt that this species nested at Harbottle 

 in 1884. The nest was placed in a hole of an old alder tree, 

 growing on the scaur side above the Coquet, at the bend below 

 the castle known as the ' Devil's Elbow.' The young birds, the 

 keeper told me, had been flown about ten days. It was on 

 July 3rd that I examined the nesting place. Mr. Slater informs 



Naturalist, 



