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northern Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilns eversmanni), 

 both from the Isle of May in 1909 (1.1911.2 and I I 6). 



BIRDS NEW TO FAUNAL AREAS, AND UNCOMMON 



VISITORS. 



A goodly number of uncommon visitors are recorded in 

 1910. The first Greater Wheatear (Saxicola cenantJie 

 leucorJwa) recorded for " Clyde " was procured near 

 Carmunnock on loth May (1.1911.116), and the first 

 record of this bird for Argyll and the Inner Hebrides comes 

 from Tiree on 8th October (1.1911.52). The Black Red- 

 start (Phcenicurus ochruros gibraltariensis) occurred on two 

 separate days in spring on Fair Isle while one is reported as 

 having been seen at Scarnish, Tiree, on the 4th November. 

 It has not been recorded before from this faunal area. At 

 Fair Isle the Red-spotted Blue-throat (Luscinia svecica) 

 appeared in some numbers in spring, both males and females 

 being recorded. On the I4th May one occurred near 

 Carmyle in the Clyde Valley, this being the second Scottish 

 mainland record for spring and the first record for " Clyde " 

 (1.1910.182). Only one is noted in autumn, on the Isle of 

 May on loth September (1.1911.2). The White-spotted 

 Blue-throat {Luscinia svecica cyanecula) visited Fair Isle ; 

 this is the second record of this bird for Scotland, the first 

 having been procured on Fair Isle in 1909. 



The only Warblers to come under this heading are an 

 Icterine Warbler {Hippolais icterind) got near Lerwick 

 on 1 5th May, and the Siberian Chiff-chaff {Phylloscopus 

 collybita tristis}. The first record of this bird for " Forth " 

 comes from the Isle of May on i6th October (1.1911.3), 

 several are recorded from Fair Isle in autumn, one was 

 shot at Seafield near Lerwick on the 28th of October 

 (1.1911.115), and other Chiff-chaffs seen there about the 

 same date were probably tristis. Not a single Barred nor 

 Yellow-browed Warbler is recorded this year, a very 

 different state of matters from what obtained in 1909. It 

 may possibly be accounted for by the great difference 

 in the weather conditions during September and early 

 October in the years under notice. 



