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was procured on the Flannan Islands on 3rd September and 

 a female on Fair Isle at the end of the month. Two Shore- 

 larks (Otocorys alpestris) were seen on the Isle of May on 

 i 3th October, and single birds are noted there up to i6th 

 October. 



On 2/th April a Hoopoe (Upupa epops] was taken at 

 Waternish ; this is only the second time that this bird has 

 been recorded in Skye ; another was picked up dead near 

 Leadhills on the 1st June. 



There are several records of Greenland Falcons (Falco 

 candicans) in 1909; on the 1st, 2nd, and I4th December 

 they visited the Flannans, one was shot at Barra on 

 i 5th December, and another seen there ten days later, and 

 a bird undoubtedly of this species was seen at Inverbroom 

 (West Ross) on the 28th. A Greenland Falcon is reported 

 from the Butt of Lewis on 4th December, and an Iceland 

 Falcon (Falco islandus] was seen at the Flannans on ist 

 December. 



The second known occurrence of the Little Bittern 

 (Ardetta minutd] in Orkney is recorded, an adult male having 

 been taken alive at Loch Stennis on I4th May. A number 

 of Pink-footed Geese (Anser brachyrJiynchus) visited Fair Isle 

 during the stormy weather which prevailed from the 7th 

 to the 1 8th October, and one was shot. This is an addition 

 to the birds known to have occurred in Shetland. On the 

 1 8th June an adult female Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna 

 casarcd] was obtained at Sule Skerry. This is a first 

 record of this species for the Northern Isles. 



A Little Crake (Porsana parva) was found in an ex- 

 hausted condition in a fisherman's boat in Girvan Harbour 

 (Ayrshire) on the 29th March, and is the first record for 

 Clyde. A Dotterel (Eudromias morinellus] was found dead 

 at Bellshill, near Glasgow, in spring. A Great Snipe 

 (Gallinago major] was procured on Fair Isle in September ; 

 and two visits of the Green Sandpiper (Totanus ocJiropus] 

 were noted : one was shot on the banks of the Ae, Kirk- 

 michael (Dumfriesshire), on 2Oth January, and the other at 

 Fair Isle. A Dusky Redshank (Totanus fuscus] occurred 

 at Balgray Dam (Clyde), with a small party of other Waders 

 on i 8th September. 



