BIRDS. 
135 
by iNIr. Byne, the proprietor. The collection was afterwards 
purchased by a Mr. Marsh Dunn of Teignmouth. Mr. 
Marsh Dunn has since died, and he left the collection 
along with his own as an heirloom. 
103. Loxia bifasciata {€'. L. Brehm). Two-barred Crossbill. 
Sub-family EMBEBIZINjE. 
104. Emberiza melanocephala, Scap. Black-headed Bunting. 
105. Emberiza miliaria, L. Common Bunting. 
Eesident, and common, being found along the whole of the 
eastern coast-line wherever there is sufficient cultivation ; 
more abundant, apparently, in the summer than the winter. 
Observed in the west at Knockan and Elphin, also at 
Scourie, and first observed at Inchnadamph in 1882. In 
1882 we also met with it sparingly at Durness. It is 
fairly common at Eosehall, and on the districts bordering 
the Oykel river below Langwell, and the Kyle of Sutherland. 
On the north coast it is very local ; seen at Bettyhill l)y 
Mr. S. G. Eeid. 
Caithness name — " Thistle Coch" " Thistle Coek Laymg." 
Common ; few, however, remaining the winter through. 
Its habit of perching on the top of thistles, etc., gives it its 
trivial county name. In autumn these birds assemble in 
large flocks, and are then very fat and in good condition 
for the table (0. MSS., 1868). 
Exceedingly common all over the cultivated areas, but 
appeared to be more abundant on the east coast than on 
the north coast. Where the common bunting appeared to 
be most common, larks were scarcer, and vice versa. (See 
Lark.) 
