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ALAUDA ARVENSIS (Skylark). A small rush to the lantern of the 

 Isle of May is recorded on the nights of the i5th to the ryth 

 February, and very large flocks are noted at Fair Isle on 2nd 

 March ; on the 2 2nd a great many of these birds were on the 

 Isle of May, and at the lantern there and at Fair Isle that night. 

 In autumn large numbers at the Butt of Lewis on 26th 

 September, numerous on Fair Isle on iSth October and killed 

 at the lantern there that night. Numbers moving south in a 

 snow-storm at Aberdeen on i4th and i5th November. 



A. ARBOREA (Wood-Lark). Four reports of this species come from 



Fair Isle in January. 

 OTOCORYS ALPESTRIS. (Shore-Lark). Two on the Isle of May on 



1 3th October and single birds there on the i4th and i6th. 



CVPSELUS APUS (Swift). Is first recorded at Beith (Clyde) on 25th 

 April, three were seen at Kirkliston next day. One was 

 killed at the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse on nth August. 

 Last seen Kirkliston, 26th August; Flannans, single birds on 

 23rd and 28th September, and one at Fair Isle on 4th 

 October. 



IYNX TORQUILLA (Wryneck). Single birds on Fair Isle on 8th and 

 1 2th May. 



DENDROCOPUS MAJOR (Great Spotted Woodpecker). A single bird 

 at Dunipace on i2th March. Bred in West Fife ("A.S.N.H.," 

 1910, p. 56) and several pairs nested in the Crieff district. 

 One in Carron Glen on 1 8th July. As autumn immigrants, a 

 bird of the year on the Isle of May on the i6th September, one 

 at the Butt of Lewis on 23rd September, and single birds at 

 four places in Shetland between the 24th and 28th September. 

 On seven occasions on Fair Isle one to three birds at a time 

 between 22nd September and 3rd October ; one dead at 

 Lerwick on ist October, and a $ near Dingwall that month. 

 Two seen at Inverbroom (W. Ross) on 6th November, single 

 birds at Ferse House and Langwell (Caithness) on the 22nd, 

 and a $ at Colinsburgh (E. Fife) about the middle of the 

 month. One near Penpont (Dumfries) on 23rd December. 



UPUPA EPOPS (Hoopoe). One at Waternish (Skye) on 27th April, 

 second record for Skye, and another was picked up dead at 

 Leadhills on ist June. 



CUCULUS CANORUS (Cuckoo). The first two records are from the 

 West, viz., at Dairy on 2 ist April ("Glas. Nat." vol. i. p. 72), 

 and at Loch Awe on the 23rd. By the 24th it is recorded 

 from Crosswood Reservoir (Midlothian). At Beith a 

 Cuckoo's egg was found in a Hedge Accentor's nest, darker 

 than most Meadow-pipit's and smaller than most Cuckoo's eggs 



