ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 53 



of St. Kilda, and the borders of the loo-fathom line. Long ago, 

 we were informed that Monach Isles exhibited little migration at all, 

 until late in the season and usually little before the October 

 " rush."- -J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Birds observed at Fair Isle during the year 1910. The 

 observations on the movements of birds at this famous station have 

 been systematically and successfully prosecuted throughout the past 

 year by Mr. Jerome Wilson. Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford 

 visited the island during both the spring and autumn passage 

 periods, and contributed very materially to the results obtained. 

 Thanks to facilities afforded by Her Grace, I was enabled to visit 

 Fair Isle during May, and saw much migration. As the result of 

 these investigations, the movements of 129 species were chronicled : 

 of these 95 were observed in spring and 105 during the autumn, while 

 75 were common to both seasons. As a full account of the various 

 bird visitors to Fair Isle, now 198 in number, with particulars of 

 their times of appearance, and other information, is in an advanced 

 stage and will be shortly published, it is not proposed to do more here 

 than mention the new species which came under notice in 1910. 

 These were the Hoary Redpoll (Acanthis exilipes), HolbolPs Red- 

 poll (A. linaria holboelli), the Great Titmouse (Pants major), Bewick's 

 Swan (Cygnus bewicki}, the King Eider (Somateria spectabilis), the 

 Red-necked Phalarope (Phala ropus fulicarius), and the Yellowshank 

 ( Totanus flavipes). The two first and the last are new to the fauna 

 of Scotland. A considerable number of rare and interesting visitors 

 also occurred. WM. EAGLE CLARKE. 



Lauderdale Bird Notes. During the past summer we became 

 aware of the presence of Hawfinches {Coccothraustes coccothraustes) 

 in the garden by the very visible signs of destruction among the 

 peas, different entirely from those caused by Tits or Sparrows. For 

 three years these birds have almost ruined the pea-rows. This 

 summer, as fast as each row ripened, Hawfinches came to them. 

 We could explain it only on the hypothesis that the birds were 

 constantly in the vicinity, though but once was a hurried glimpse of 

 one got. A nest of the Hawfinch, however, was found lately, when 

 the gardener was pruning, in one of the standard apple trees, nine 

 feet or thereby from the ground. Apart from the fact that Mr. 

 Eagle Clarke identified it, there was no mistaking the loose, rather 

 flat structure of moss and spruce-fir twigs outside, and the lining of 

 fibres and twigs within. The nest was quite close to a frequented 

 path, and the presence of both Blackcap and Garden Warblers in 

 the garden during the earlier fruit season made us watch the bushes 

 and trees more closely than usual. Withal, but for the nest, the 

 destruction of the peas, and the suspected glimpse of one, we 

 should have been quite unconscious of the interesting fact that 

 these rare and very secretive birds lived so much in the vicinity. 



