. 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 . hat date his brother saw two Waxwings nearthe post-road between Grantshouse and Penmanshiel; andhe also mentions, on the authority of Mr. Wilson of Cold-ingham, that one was seen at Hallydown on the 11th ofMay 1872, and another killed at Coldingham shortly after-wards.^ Mr. John Ferguson, Duns, records that one wasshot on Duns Castle estate in the winter of Great numbers of Waxwings appeared in various partsof
. 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 . hat date his brother saw two Waxwings nearthe post-road between Grantshouse and Penmanshiel; andhe also mentions, on the authority of Mr. Wilson of Cold-ingham, that one was seen at Hallydown on the 11th ofMay 1872, and another killed at Coldingham shortly after-wards.^ Mr. John Ferguson, Duns, records that one wasshot on Duns Castle estate in the winter of Great numbers of Waxwings appeared in various partsof the country in the winters of 1830-31, 1834-35, 1849-50, and 1866-67. The food is principally berries and insects, and the birdis very voracious. Nothing was known of its nidification until 1856,when it was discovered by Mr. John WoUey breeding inLapland. It nests in the pine regions near the ArcticCircle. The Waxwing, which is about the size of a Starling,derives its name from the shafts of the secondary feathers ofthe wing being tipped at the lower end with a substancewhich resembles scarlet sealing-wax. 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Chib, vol. vi. p. 427. ^ Ibid. vol. vii. p. ^tfinA-^. ,.._-. ,_^ PASSE RES. { 131 ) MUSCICAPIDAL. THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHEE. Muscicapa grisola. Summer birds pursuing gilded flies. COWPER, Winter Walk at Noov. The Spotted Flycatcher is one of our latest summer migrants,and does not often make its appearance until the advent ofmild weather, when the cold breath of winter has passedaway for the season. It generally comes from about the middle to the end ofMay, when the trees are assuming their summer dress;but it has been observed in the county as early as the endof It leaves us for a warmer climate about thebeginning of September, and appears to spend the wintermonths in Africa, It is a modest, silent, unobtrusive bird, and duringsummer may frequently be seen perched on a paling or post,or the dead branch of a tree by the roadside, and at shortinter
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