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BIRDS. 
usually very common near the coast, in 1885 we found it 
quite so at Findlemore on Loch Laxford, and between that 
and Tarbat. 
Abundant and resident. Local name " Teitlan" (0. MSS.). 
In 1885 found abundantly inland, rarer near the coast. 
A few about the peninsula of Dunnet Head; rarer on or 
near the north coast than in the east of the county. 
64. Anthus trivialis (L.). Tree Pipit. 
Summer visitant ; rare and local. First recorded as a breed- 
ing species in 1875, when two pairs were seen and a nest 
taken at Glenrossal near Eosehall. At the latter place a 
single specimen had been observed before. Casual visitant 
in the west, the only instance of its occurrence we can 
recall from personal observation being that of a solitary 
example at Inchnadamph previous to 1875. Eeported 
as occasional at Tongue. 
Only one or two specimens have been obtained in Caithness. 
One, a male, was procured in a wooded park in Pulteney- 
town on the 4th May (0. MSS., 1868). Mr. Eeid has since 
met with it. 
65. Antlius campestris {L.). Tawny Pipit. 
66. Anthus ricardi, Viell. Richard's Pipit. 
67. Anthus spipoletta {L.). Water Pipit. 
68. Anthus obscurus {Lath.). Rock Pi pit. 
Eesident ; abundant ; breeding all along the coast, excepting 
that part from about Port Gower to the Dornoch Firth, 
where the locality is not suitable, but it is found there in 
the winter. Perhaps most numerous along the north coast; 
in great numbers on the peninsula forming Far-out Head, 
near Durness. Omnipresent on the coast-lines of the west, 
and on the islands, where it often breeds on the flat ground 
under the shelter of a rock or stone, or ledge of turf, like 
