200 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



and a passage of Sandpipers took place at Kirkliston on the 

 nights of the 2Oth and 2ist. The arrival of some of our 

 common summer migrants was exceptionally protracted, the 

 full number of Willow - warblers, Swallows, and House- 

 martins not appearing at some of the East Coast stations till 

 about 2Oth May. The last Bramblings of the season were 

 seen on Fair Isle on the 2ist, and a Grass-hopper Warbler 

 was noted at Beith next day. About twelve Fieldfares and 

 a Red-backed Shrike were seen on the Isle of May on the 

 23rd, and a male of the latter species is recorded at Balcomie 

 (E. Fife), and also a Long-tailed Drake. After this, up to 

 the end of the month, the wind was between NW. and SW., 

 and not much migration is recorded. On the 26th four 

 Brent Geese visited Fair Isle, and a flock of about a hundred 

 Greenfinches was seen in Largo Bay, where was also a 

 Sanderling. The last Fieldfare of the season was seen on 

 Fair Isle on the 28th, while on the 3 1st a Dotterel is recorded 

 from the Flannans. 



June. As might be expected, but little movement took 

 place in June. During the first fortnight a few Swallows 

 and House-martins were passing the Flannans, Butt of 

 Lewis, Fair Isle, and Lerwick. A Night-jar is reported from 

 Tranent on the 3rd, and on the 6th small flocks of Lapwings 

 were seen at the Butt of Lewis. On the 8th and 9th a few 

 migrants were present on Fair Isle, the species recorded 

 including Ring-ouzel, Redstart, Robin, Whitethroat, Lesser 

 Whitethroat, Willow-warbler, and Swift. Spotted and Pied 

 Flycatchers were very late in appearing at Thornhill (Dum- 

 fries), not being seen till mid-June. On the iQth several 

 hundred Scoter were seen in the sea off Aberdeen, mainly 

 (E. nigra. On the 25th an adult male Crossbill of the Loxia 

 curvirostra curvirostra race arrived on Fair Isle (1.1910.245), 

 and at this place a Long-tailed Duck was seen on the 28th, 

 and three days later one is recorded from Lerwick. 



July. In Britain the first six days of July were very 

 unsettled, from the 6th to the ipth the country was under 

 the influence of an anticyclone, and after the 1 9th unsettled 

 weather again became common to all districts. The return 

 migration began early in July, becoming stronger later in the 

 month. Golden Plover and Whimbrel were on the move, 



