112 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, fyc. 
X.— Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, fyc. 
We have received the following letters:— 
To the Editor of ‘ The Ibis .' 
26 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, W.C. 
Sir, —In reference to the remark in ‘ The Ibis/ voh i. p. 404, 
“ we are pretty sure that if the Chiff-chaff occurs at all in the 
Scandinavian peninsula, it is only in the extreme south,” I beg 
to send you a copy of a note I made respecting this species on 
my return to London, after visiting Norway in the summer of 
1856:— 
“ The Chiff-chaff ( Phylloscopus rufus ) was not so abundant in 
Norway as the common Willow-Wren (P. trochilus), neither does 
it frequent the higher lands, at least I did not either hear or see 
it there. I did, however, hear it sing; and my companion, 
Mr. Wolf, shot one near the celebrated waterfalls at Trondheim. 
The legs of this specimen were dark olive-brown, the nails and 
toes the same; the soles and back of the tarsi yellowish; bill 
olive-brown; under mandible and gonys yellowish; eye nearly 
black.” Yours, &c., John Gould. 
[05s. We are much indebted to Mr. Gould for thus informing 
us with respect to the range of the Chiff-chaff in Norway, which 
certainly seems to be more northerly than we had supposed; 
but our remarks, as regards Herr Schrader's assertion, are but 
little affected thereby, as Trondheim is still within the limits of 
the southern portion of the peninsula.—‘The Ibis' Reviewer .] 
To the Editor of 1 The Ibis .' 
October 24, 1860. 
Sir, —I beg leave to forward to you such particulars as I have 
been able to obtain regarding a curious locality chosen for 
breeding by a pair of Golden Eagles ( Aquila chrysaetos) in 
Perthshire during the past season. The nest was built in a 
large Scotch-fir tree—one of a wood on the southern bank of 
Glen Lyon, on the other side of the river, but not more than 
350 yards distance from Meggernie Castle, the present residence 
of Ronald Steuart Menzies of Culdares. Pour eggs were laid, by 
