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nest is generally on the slope of a grassy bank, or in cliffs at no 
great height above the sea, is composed of dry grass-stalks, and 
lined with a few black horse-hairs. He has found nests containing 
eggs, and others having young on the 7th of May : — a bird which 
he startled from her nest, feigned being hurt, evidently to draw his 
attention thence to herself. 
At the Giant's Causeway, where these birds are particularly 
numerous, I have been much interested, in the middle of June, 
by observing them ascend gradually to a great height in the air, 
uttering continuously “ cheep-cheep '' between each beat of the 
wings, and then descend in perfect silence as quickly, and at 
about the same angle, perhaps fifty degrees. The descent was 
accomplished with motionless wing, their little breasts being shot 
out like puff-balls. Prom my always seeing a pair of these birds 
about the wall at the neighbouring salmon-cuts (Bush-foot), I had 
no doubt of their having a nest in some of its apertures. 
I have remarked this species to be as common on the coasts of 
Wigton-shire and Ayrshire, as in Ireland. 
Bichabd’s Pipit (Anthus RicJiardi ), which has on very few 
occasions been obtained in England, has not been seen in Scotland 
(Jard. : Macg.) or Ireland. 
THE BOHEMIAN WAX- WING, 
Waxen Chatterer. 
Bomby cilia garrula, Linn, (sp.) 
Ampelis garrulus , „ 
Is an occasional, but rare, winter visitant. 
Mb. Templeton has said of this bird : “ Sometimes seen about 
Belfast, but more common in Tullamore Park, county Down ; has 
been several times* shot in the county of Derry Charles worth's 
Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 405. By a veteran sporting friend, the 
wax-wing has twice been met with in the neighbourhood of Bel- 
fast, and in both instances in wooded glens within the district of 
the Ealls : — in the lower part of Colin glen, and at Milltown. One 
* “ Once ” instead of “ several times,” in Mr. Templeton’s MS. 
