I 06 TRANSACTIONS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Two specimens ot the Hawfinch {Coccofhrausfes vulgaris) were 
killed in i86i in the garden at Annat Lodge. It is not so un¬ 
common in the southern counties of England, and is also found 
throughout Europe and Asia, as far south as Malta, and eastwards to 
China and Japan. 
The Tree Sparrow {Passer montanus) has not yet been observed 
in Perthshire, though found in various parts of Scotland, and Colonel 
Drummond Hay says it takes the place of the Common Sparrow in 
Bulgaria. Its near relative the House Sparrow {Passer domesficus) 
is, like the ubiquitous Scotsman, found almost everywhere. I have 
seen it nesting in the rigging of a ship at Calcutta, and I have no 
doubt, when the ship sailed, the sparrows accompanied her, and 
started a new colony in, to them, some unknown land, though, 
I believe, when they got ashore, some of their own species would be 
there to welcome them ! The hot weather in India takes it out of 
them, however, and it is pitiable to see them during the heat of the 
day, crowding to the shady side of the verandah, with wings outspread 
and beaks wide open, gasping for air. Colonel Drummond Hay 
informs me that in the Mediterranean the Spanish and Italian species 
predominate. 
The Chaffinch {Frmgilla coelebs) is perhaps one of our best 
known birds in Perthshire. We all know its beautifully constructed 
nest, but the birds which stay to breed with us are nothing to the 
myriads which flock to our shores from the north in October and 
November, and which leave us in spring. 
The Brambling {Fringilla montifringilla) is a winter visitor; but 
though I am told it is common with us, I have never found it so; 
indeed, the only specimen I have seen was one I found lying under 
a beech tree on Drummond Hill, Kenmore, in the winter of 1890. 
I have, however, the following note in my book as showing the range 
of this bird. “Shot at a height of 18,000 feet, while crossing a pass 
into Thibet, May, 1865.” 
1 he Linnet {Linota cannahma) has also a wide geographical range, 
extending as far as Japan, and the same may be said of the Mealy 
Red Poll {Linota Unarm) and the Lesser Red Poll {Linota rufes- 
ce?is) which is found from Spitzbergen in the Arctic Circle in summer, 
to the south of Europe in winter. 
The Mountain Linnet {Linota fiavirostris) is one of our com¬ 
monest birds throughout the moorland districts of the country, and 
has, according to Yarrell, a wide distribution over Europe and 
Asia. 
The Common Bullfinch {Pyrrhula europceci) is one of the best- 
known birds of the country though somewhat local in its habits, and 
I have generally found it in young fir and larch plantations. It 
