BIRDS. 
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60. Motacilla melanope, Pall. Grey Wagtail. 
A summer visitant ; fairly numerous in the eastern district. 
Eeturns witli great regularity to the same nesting-places 
year after year. After the severe winter of 1878-79 two 
nesting-places we knew of in the latter district were, how- 
ever, unfrequented. Occurs in winter occasionally about 
Bonar ; we received a specimen from there in the flesh in 
1869. Local in the west, visiting regularly the same spots 
every year. Not very abundant. 
Not a very common species, according to Mr. Osborne, who 
has only obtained one nest near "Wick ; more plentiful in 
the autumn than at other times. 
Marked "occasional" in the 1862 list. 
Two pairs seen at Berriedale in 1885 by Harvie-Brown, 
but none observed northward through the county. 
61. Motacilla flava, L. Blue-headed Wagtail. 
62. Motacilla rayii, Bon. Ray's Wagtail. 
\Ohs. — This species is included in Mr. A. G. More's sub-pro- 
vince 35, but with a mark of interrogation. He says, " This 
bird has been seen as far north as Sutherland by Mr. St, 
John and Sir W. Jardine," etc., but we have never met 
with it nor heard of it during some eighteen years' experi- 
ence of the county.] 
It is rarely found in Caithness (0. MSS.). 
63. Anthus pratensis, L. Meadow Pipit. 
Eesident ; partially migratory ; abundant everywhere in 
summer, much scarcer in winter. Earely occurs above the 
heather line, at least in our experience, though Selby speaks 
of it as met with " on the summits of the highest hills." 
This species, along with the rock pipit, was extremely 
abundant around Durness, and on the peninsula of Far-out 
Head, where we observed them in 1882. Though not 
