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BIRDS. 
73. Lanius colluris, L. Red-backed Shrike. 
[One is recorded as being in the Dunrobin Museum, but there 
is no history attached to it] 
[A young bird of this species is in the Duke of Portland's 
collection at Welbeck Abbey, but there is no precise date 
or locality given beyond the general statement that " all the 
birds in the collection were shot on the Duke's property in 
Caithness " (Welbeck). 
A specimen of this bird is mentioned by the late Dr. 
Sinclair of Wick as having been killed in the county.] 
74. Lanius auricuiatus, Mull. Woodclnat Shrike. 
Family AMPELID.a:. 
75. Am pel is garrulus, L. Waxwing. 
Very rare and casual visitant. One specimen known to us 
came into the possession of the late Mr. Dunbar of Brawl ; 
it was shot in a garden near Balblair, Invershin, date 
unknown. An adult male shot by Sheriff Mackenzie at 
Dornoch on the 3d December 1872. There had been 
.severe gales three weeks before. 
Marked occasional in S. and 0. (1862), and "generally found 
dead." The first example obtained in Caithness was shot 
many years ago at Eosebank, On the 12th ISTov. 1863 
another made its appearance within the same grounds, as 
observed by Mr. Osborne, and remained three days. In the 
winter of 1866-67 two haunted a corner of Mrs. Coghill's 
garden in Pulteneytown for some days (0. MSS., 1868). 
Family MUSCICAPID.a:. 
76. IVIuscicapa grisola, L. Spotted Flycatcher. 
Summer visitant ; commonest in the south-east ; more rare in 
the north and centre, but has been found nesting all the 
way, in suitable places between Dornoch and Tongue, by 
