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only a few odd birds have been recorded from that locality in 

 summer. 



Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) appear to have been commoner than 

 usual in the islands ; several were noted at Binscarth. 



At least two pairs of Red-necked Phalaropes (Phalaropus hyper- 

 boreus) bred this season on North Ronaldshay. 



On 1 3th August Mr. C. H. Ackroyd saw a Barn Owl (Strix 

 flammed) at Yesnabie near Skaill, the second time in which he has 

 seen this bird in Orkney. T. E. BUCKLEY, Inverness. 



Chiffehaffin "Clyde." The editor's note in the "Annals" for 

 July on the occurrence of the Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus rufus) in 

 Midlothian and the paucity of records for that county recall to me 

 that since I published an account of the distribution of this species 

 in "Clyde" ("Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow," v. (N.S.), pp. 48- 

 52) some additional information has come to hand which may be 

 recorded. I had overlooked an interesting reference of Mr. Gray's 

 in Bryce's "Geology of Arran," etc. (1872 ed.), where he says (p. 

 299), "I have seen and shot the Chiffehaffin the Cumbrae Islands." 

 Mr. Wm. Evans tells me regarding my reference to its occurrence 

 at Dundonald in Ayrshire," that he heard it there in 1884. In 

 the same county the following localities are new: Barr (April 1898, 

 fide Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt) ; Lady Glen, Kilkerran (several, April 

 1898); Ballochmyle (two heard, May 1898), and a little farther 

 down the Water of Ayr, on the same occasion, one, at Barskimming ; 

 in the village of Fairlie, one (June 1899); from Lendalfoot Mr. 

 Chas. Berry reports them " very plentiful " in April 1900. Localities 

 indicated by Dr. Fullarton, Lamlash, for Arran, in notes relating to 

 the arrival of summer birds, are Auchenhew, Kildonan (April 1898), 

 Glenree (April 1899), and Moniemore (April 1900). Mr. John 

 Robertson found it in two or three places about Mountstuart, Bute, 

 in June 1899. In a list of birds of Queen's Park and Camphill 

 (1893) by the late Mr. A. A. Thomson, for a copy of which I am 

 indebted to Mr. J. M'Naught Campbell, it is entered with the letter 

 " f," indicating a few. The most interesting occurrence of all is 

 perhaps that of a pair of males calling in Cleghorn woods, near 

 Lanark, on the i6th of June this year, the first time I have heard 

 it anywhere in Lanarkshire. The country between Lanark and 

 Hamilton is rich in sylvan bird-life, but the Chiffchaff has ap- 

 parently not been known to occur there hitherto. In Dumbarton- 

 shire, Mr. Harold Raeburn heard it at Shandon (1894), as I learned 

 from Mr. W. Evans ; and in the course of a walk in the first week in 

 June this year, with Mr. John Robertson, from Balloch to Luss, we 

 heard it at two or three places. JOHN PATERSON, Glasgow. 



Hybrid Capereailie and Blackcock. I saw in Mr. Mackay's 

 shop a very fine specimen of this cross, a male bird, which had been 



