202 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



E. HORTULANA (Ortolan Bunting). This species is recorded at 

 Fair Isle on both spring and autumn passage. 



E. RUSTICA (Rustic Bunting). One male was procured in autumn 

 on Fair Isle. 



E. PUSILLA (Little Bunting). A bird of this species is recorded 

 from Fair Isle in autumn, and single birds from the Isle of 

 May on 25th and 26th September, this being the first record 

 for Forth. ("A.S.N.H.," 1910, p. 6). 



E. SCHCENICLUS (Reed Bunting). Laying in Banffshire on ist May. 

 An albino was procured in Solway (see "A.S.N.H.," 1910, 

 p. n8). 



PLECTROPHANES NIVALIS (Snow-Bunting). Flocks at Sule Skerry 

 on 26th March, and two at the Isle of May on the 3ist. A 

 small flock in Tiree travelling north on iyth April, one at the 

 Butt of Lewis on the 25th, and last seen at Fair Isle on igth 

 May. In autumn several were seen at Sule Skerry on 6th 

 September, two at the Flannans on the 8th, first seen East 

 Ross, 2yth; many at Fair Isle on the 29th. Flocks are recorded 

 from Tiree on 23rd October and Aberdeen on the 25th, about 

 100 arrived on the Flannans on the 3ist, and a large flock on 

 Fair Isle on ist November, many more arriving at the two last- 

 named places on the 2nd. 



CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS (Lapland Bunting). A single bird is re- 

 corded from Fair Isle in spring and another in autumn, and 

 one was procured on the Flannans on 3rd September. 



STURNUS VULGARIS (Starling). A flock of arrivals is noted on Fair 

 Isle on 1 8th March, and a few at the lantern on the Isle of 

 May next night. Some numbers on these two places, and at 

 both lanterns on the 22nd and 23rd. Laying at Kirkliston on 

 2 ist April, in an open nest in the head of a Scots fir at that 

 place on isth May, while from Beith we have the note "nest 

 with four eggs built in a tree, and other starlings carrying 

 building materials to similar places. There seems to be a 

 scarcity of nesting holes for the birds, and they have taken to 

 building in trees." Nesting in the cliffs at the Butt of Lewis, 

 and among rubble on the sea-shore. At the Fair Isle lantern 

 on nth October, and numerous at the light there, and at the 

 Flannans on the i8th. Numbers passed south in a snow- 

 storm at Aberdeen on i5th November. 



CORVUS FRUGILEGUS (Rook). A good deal of movement is recorded 

 in March. Large numbers at Lerwick on 2oth March, 500 to 

 600 at Fair Isle, and " swarming " on the Isle of May on the 

 22nd, and at the lanterns of both places that night, while 200 

 or more are noted at Lerwick on the 23rd and 27th. 



