I 4 2 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



at Saltoun, and Swallows at the Butt of Lewis ; on the 5th 

 a Spotted Flycatcher is reported at Dairy, and Little Terns 

 at St. Andrews. On the /th a Pied Flycatcher arrived at 

 Fair Isle with small numbers of other migrants, next day a 

 Wryneck and a Hawfinch at the same place, and a Grass- 

 hopper-warbler at Dairy (Clyde). Although the main rush 

 was past migrants continued to arrive and spread over 

 Scotland; by the I5th East Lothian and East Fife had 

 received their full quota of Warblers ; while from the 1 2th 

 to the end of the month Arctic, Common, and Little Terns 

 kept arriving at Tiree. Slight movement is recorded almost 

 every day up to the 3 1st from various stations, but no rush 

 of sufficient importance to merit special notice. 



June. -As we might expect there is little migration to 

 fecord for June, but the month is signalised by an irruption 

 from Europe of those gypsy migrants the Crossbills. The 

 first was seen at Fair Isle on 23rd June, later many were 

 recorded from our northern islands and various parts of the 

 mainland. The birds reported from our shores only form 

 part of a larger movement which included England, Ireland, 

 and parts of the Continent in its range. 



July. The immigration of Crossbills continued through- 

 out July, the greatest number being seen in the north. 

 Among them were a couple of Two-barred Crossbills. 

 About the middle of the month decided traces of Wader- 

 migration are recorded, and by the end various Limicolae 

 were moving freely. Greenshanks, Sandpipers, and flocks 

 of Golden Plover, Sanderling, Turnstones, and Whimbrel 

 were seen by the shore in East Fife, and records of most of 

 these species come also from Fair Isle and East Ross. The 

 first influx of Willow-warblers is recorded from the East 

 Coast. 



Aiigust. The first half of August was anticyclonic, the 

 second half unsettled and cold. Pressure was high for the 

 first fortnight, thereafter low. The first half of August 

 shows a continuance of the Wader-migration, and by the 

 lOth Passeres were also on the move, Wheatears being 

 reported from the lanterns on the Flannan Islands and Isle 

 of May. On the I4th and I5th Wheatears, Willow- 

 warblers, Sedge-warblers, Whitethroats, Spotted Flycatchers, 



