. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . theBenvickshire NatiLralists Cliib as visiting the followingplaces in the County:—Kear AUanton;^ wood at Luggy;Lauderdale;^ Penmanshiel; Duns Castle woods;* OldThirlestane ;^ Gordon Moss f and Edington Mill.^ I havelikewise notes of its occurrence near the Grange Wood, inColdingham parish; and on the Leader below EhymersMill, near Earlston. Several Eedpolls were caught whilefeeding on the alders by the side of the mil
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . theBenvickshire NatiLralists Cliib as visiting the followingplaces in the County:—Kear AUanton;^ wood at Luggy;Lauderdale;^ Penmanshiel; Duns Castle woods;* OldThirlestane ;^ Gordon Moss f and Edington Mill.^ I havelikewise notes of its occurrence near the Grange Wood, inColdingham parish; and on the Leader below EhymersMill, near Earlston. Several Eedpolls were caught whilefeeding on the alders by the side of the millpond at Nabdeannear Paxton, in December 1887, the bird-catchers using along slender stick, smeared at the point with bird-lime totake them, in the same way as they capture Siskins. There is no record of the occurrence of the MealyRedpoll (Linota linaria) in Berwickshire. Mr, Seebohmconsiders this and the Lesser Eedpoll as forms of the samebird.^ 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 284. ~ Ibid, vol, vii. p. 303. 3 Ibid. vol. vii. p. 513. 4 jtid. vol. vii. p. 513. 5 Ibid. vol. vii. p. 521, 6 jbia. vol. ix. p. 561. 7 Ibid. vol. X. p. 573. 8 Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. PASSERES. ( 174 ) FRINGILLID/E. THE TWITE. MOUNTAIN LINNET, HEATHER LINTIE. l^eat!)er liintiz. Sweet among the knowes and brakens Sing the Linties, chantiiig clear ;Sweet aviang the bogs and mosses, Floras gems the loneness cheer. Dr. Henderson, The Heather Lintie, which is very like the Common Linnet,but not so large, is occasionally seen in small flocks in thelower parts of the county during winter, and in summer it isfound in the Lammermuirs. In the end of December 1874,a small flock visited the Crow-Dean Wood at Paxton, wherethey fed on the seeds of the avens {Geiim urhamim),which is plentiful there. Mr. Hardy mentions having seenthis bird some years ago early in October, in the woodsround the Dog-bush near Marygold,^ and also that oldshepherds in the Lammermuirs used to know its ne
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