56 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Golden Oriole in Dumfriesshire. On 3oth April 1909, Mr. 

 Charles Vere caught an adult male of this species at Penton Lynns 

 (Canonbie). After being caged it only lived one day, so it was 

 sent to Mr. Raine, taxidermist, Carlisle, for preservation. I have 

 personally seen the specimen, which is now in Mr. Vere's possession. 

 HUGH S. GLADSTONE. 



Nesting- of the Great Spotted Woodpecker in West Fife. A 



pair of this species safely hatched off their young this spring on the 

 estate of Brucefield, belonging to Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in the 

 West of Fife. Two specimens of the Great Spotted Woodpecker 

 have previously been obtained on the estate of Westgrange which 

 adjoins Brucefield in the same district of Fife. One of these occur- 

 rences, as recorded in the Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society, 

 took place on 3rd April 1877, and the other, hitherto unrecorded, on 

 25th January 1902. J. J. DALGLEISH, Brankston Grange, Alloa. 



Quails in East Lothian. Quails (Coturnix communis) were 

 reported to have been heard in June in two spots not very far from 

 Haddington, but though I visited the places I could not hear or see 

 them. But several pairs did nest not far from Tranent in the corn- 

 fields, where their sharp, penetrating cry was heard continually. On 

 the evening of 3rd August I made a round of the places where they 

 were, with Dr. Ritchie of Tranent. We located the cry in three if 

 not in four different fields. They were heard almost daily from 

 xoth July till 23rd August. How much later they were there I 

 cannot say, for I was unable to pay another visit myself to the 

 locality. H. N. BONAR, Saltoun, Pencaitland. 



" Ringed " Arctic Tern at Barns Ness Lighthouse (Forth), 

 In September last I was asked to identify a Tern with a ring on its 

 leg, which had been found unable to fly owing to an injured wing, at 

 Barns Ness Lighthouse, near Dunbar, on the night of 23rd August. 

 It was an immature Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura}, and had on its 

 left tarsus a metal ring inscribed "Country Life, London, No. 516." 

 I communicated with "Country Life," and ascertained that the bird 

 was ringed at the Fame Islands by Mr. Riley Fortune on iyth July 

 (cf. "Country Life" of i6th October 1909). Flocks of Terns, the 

 light-keeper tells me, were observed flying round the dome of the 

 lighthouse during the evening of 23rd August, the wind at the time 

 blowing from the south-east. 



I may mention that there has been sent to me a Storm Petrel 

 (Procellaria pelagica) which was found in a dying state at Barns 

 Ness Lighthouse on the morning of iSth October. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Beautiful Variety of the Black-headed Gull. A gull was 

 obtained here on the gth of December which was remarkable for 

 the beautiful rosy pink colour pervading all the white portions of 



