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78 SYLVIAD/E. 
^lessrs Baikie and Heddle note tliat they arrive in Orkney 
during easterly gales. With us also they come principally with 
gales from east and south-east. It is interesting to find both 
this and llcguhis ignicainllus in Captain Feilden’s catalogue of 
tlie birds of Faroe. 
Tlie almost complete indifference to danger displayed by the 
Goldcrest is well known. Having with very little difficulty 
caught one inside a window, I shut it into the room, and going 
into the garden procured a large number of aphides ; these I 
placed upon various parts of the window frame, and very soon 
liad the satisfaction of seeing the familiar little fellow begin 
picking them up industriously. I then restored him to his 
companions. One day in October, as I was sailing northwards 
towards Unst, the wind being nearly due south, five Goldcrests 
flitted up and alighted upon the fore part of the gunwale. 
They appeared to be quite active and vigorous, and, on our 
passing a small grassy holm, they flew towards it, and we saw 
them no more. One of the men told me that a bird of precisely 
similar appearance was found by himself lying dead upon one 
of the thwarts of an overturned boat upon the Uyea Sound 
beach, one frosty day, almost exactly a year previously. 
V. FAEIBJE. 
THE GKEAT TIT. 
Parus major. 
This bird has been seen by me in Unst, where, however, it 
is extremely rare. One which visited that island in April first 
attracted my attention by its peculiar saw-sharpening spring 
note, so well known elsewhere. It very soon took its departure, 
probalfiy being dissatisfied with its quarters. On another 
occasion a fine male was brought in by a cat ; it had the 
stomacli completely filled with common house-flies. 
A lad from Yell, to whom I showed a coloured drawing of the 
