. 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 . the Ornithology of Berwickshireand District within the limits of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, in 1841,as among the rarer species of periodical summer visitors.—Hist. Ber. Nat. Club,vol. i. pp. 252-257. The district within the limits of the Club includes a largepart of Northumberland, where the bird was probably a rare periodical summervisitor before it appeared in Berwickshire. 3 Mr. Hardys MS. Notes. 62 THE BLA
. 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 . the Ornithology of Berwickshireand District within the limits of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, in 1841,as among the rarer species of periodical summer visitors.—Hist. Ber. Nat. Club,vol. i. pp. 252-257. The district within the limits of the Club includes a largepart of Northumberland, where the bird was probably a rare periodical summervisitor before it appeared in Berwickshire. 3 Mr. Hardys MS. Notes. 62 THE BLACKCAP. scarlet- berried elder in August, when the brilliant-colouredbunches hang temptingly upon the tree. It generally selects a quiet, secluded spot in a planta-tion or wooded dean for its nest, which is built of dry grasslined with hair, and placed in a bush such as a sloe, briar,privet, or bramble, a few feet from the ground. It hasnested every summer in Paxton Woods for the last fifteenyears. The eggs are usually four or five in number, andvary considerably in colour, but are generally of a dirtywhite, clouded with yellowish brown, and marked with afew brown PASSE RES. ( 63 ) SYLVIIDM. THE GAEDEN WAEBLER GREATER PETTYCHAPS, FAUVETTE, GARDEN FAUVETTE. Sylvia scdicaria. Trees have their music, for the birds they shieldThe pleasitig tribute for protection yield. Crabbe. This Warbler, like the last species, generally arrives in Ber-wickshire from its southern winter quarters, from the thirdweek in April to the third week in May, and, like that bird,it appears to be increasing in numbers and extending tonew districts. It was observed by me at Paxton, for thefirst time, on the 23rd of May 1879. As it keeps itself closely concealed in the thickest foliageof the deciduous trees and underwood of our copses anddeans, it is seldom seen; and in many cases its presenceis only known to those who are acquainted with its song,and can distinguish its notes from those of the Black
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