140 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Pill-beetle (Byrrhus pilula} ; all were decapitated, but the 

 heads were there too. 



It will be remembered that in December 1909 a number 

 of Greenland Falcons (Falco candicans] were recorded : the 

 visitation of these birds lasted well into 1910. On 4th 

 January a female was shot near Pitlochry (1.1910.1 19), and 

 an adult male near Blairgowrie on the 23rd of that month 

 (1.1910.119). On the Flannans one occurred on 25th 

 January (1.1910.1 19), another was shot on Schiehallion early 

 in the year (1.1910.119), and a Greenland Falcon was 

 present on South Uist during most of January (1.1910.1 19). 

 A male was shot at Rogart (Sutherland) on 8th March 

 (1.1910.246), and a young female was trapped on Ardross 

 Moor (Ross) next day (1.1910.246). Finally one was seen 

 on the Flannans on i/th March. A Hobby {Falco subbuted] 

 is recorded near Innes (Elgin) in the end of June 

 (1.1911.117). On iith January a male Bittern {Botaurus 

 stellaris] in good plumage was shot at Tarvit, Cupar (Fife) 

 (1.1910,119); and a Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) was 

 procured in South Uist in November ("Field," loth Dec.), this 

 being the first record for the Outer Hebrides. A Flamingo 

 (Phcenicopterus roseus\ probably an escaped bird, was seen 

 at Cardross, on the Clyde estuary, on 9th and 23rd October ; 

 it had been noticed for some time before. It was finally 

 reported as killed off Port-Glasgow (2.iii.35 and 71). 



Bewick's Swan (Cygnus bewicki) was this year added to 

 the fauna of Fair Isle (1.1911.53). Two Ruddy Sheldrake 

 (Casarca ferruginea), one of each sex, were shot near Sarsclet 

 (Caithness) on 27th June (2.ii. 134), while King Fider 

 (Somateria spectabilis) were seen at Fair Isle in spring 

 (1.1911.53) and at Noss Sound, Bressay, on 29th June, one 

 drake in each case. 



A female of Baillon's Crake (Crex bailloni) was shot near 

 Halkirk (Caithness) on 2 1st August, and in Bute a Dotterel 

 (Eudromias morinellus) was seen on i 5th May, the first note 

 of this species in Bute (2.^.142), while on 3ist May one 

 was procured on the Flannans, this being the second record 

 for the Outer Hebrides. The Red-necked Phalarope 

 (Phalaropus hyperboreus) is reported for the first time from 

 Fair Isle (1.191 1.53), and a Great Snipe (Gallinago media} 



