98 TRANSACTIONS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Ur. Wm. Evans obtained a nest and fresh eggs upon Dunipace pro¬ 
perty (Forth), when informed of the site by us, and again found 
them nesting on Strathspey, as related above. e have long been 
aware of its very general distribution in Forth, and know man}’ 
localities in the County of Stirling, both southward and westward ; 
but by far the greater part of our information from Tay and north¬ 
eastward from Stirling is decidedly negative to date, though many 
most suitable localities are perfectly known to us, A. G. More’s 
information notwithstanding. 
By the late Mr. A. G. More’s paper and accompanying map 
(/oc. cit.) it would appear to the ordinary reader that the distribu¬ 
tion of the Marsh Tit is continuous through Perth, Forfar, and 
Aberdeen, and even to Inverness; but the information afforded to 
our author for (part only) Perth, and for Aberdeen and^ Inverness, 
appears to us to have been exceedingly fragmentary and incomplete, 
nor have any subsequent data come to hand to warrant such a , 
general and sweeping statement of the bird’s distribution. The 
blank specially deserving of attention extends between the valley of 
the Forth northward to the Spey, and thence north-eastwards through 
all the north-east districts of Dee and Moray, and northwards, north 
of the Great Glen. 
Our negative information consists of the following:—Mr. Marshall, 
the Store, Stanley, a gentleman who possesses a very good collection 
of local birds, assures us he has not seen nor heard of the Marsh Tit 
being obtained in his district, and the Perth Naturalists appear to be 
unanimous in their opinion that they cannot include it as a Tay 
Valley bird. It does, we believe, occur in the County of Perth, but 
not in any portion of it that can belong to the valley or watershed of 
Tay. Yet we can feel very certain of its breeding up the Forth 
Valley as far as Kippen, ten miles west of Stirling, and possibly even 
further in that direction. 
Mr. Geo. Sim, who (as is well known) is our first authority for 
Dee area, has only one single record of the Marsh Tit in Dee, and 
that only an October one. 
In Moray our negatives far exceed our positives. Our friend, Mr. 
John Young, of the War Office—an excellent observer—“ never met 
with the Marsh Tit in the Spey Valley, but has met with the four 
species of Tits (four southern species)” passing south. Some^ autho¬ 
rities say “ Tits do not migrate,” but we have Gathe’s authority that 
they do, past Heligoland. 
Mr. Geo. Muirhead, author of the “Birds of Berwickshire,” adds 
his testimony to Mr. Sim’s, but, of course, with less local experience 
except during the past few years, and omits it from lists from Haddo, 
Aberdeenshire. Keepers in Strathspey do not recognise the species 
