MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1899 77 



PHYLLOSCOPUS RUFUS (Chiftchaff). 



Tweed Chirnside, April 5th, Oct. ist. Clyde Lendallbot, 

 April 6th. Outer Hebrides Barra. Nov. iSth, two. 



PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS (Willow Wren). 



Tay Comrie, April 25th (singing). Methven Boy, Sept. 23rd. 

 Forth Hermitage, Blackford Hill, April 2 ist. Isle of May, May 

 nth (wings and legs sent). Tweed Halmyre, April 22nd, several; 

 Sept. 1 4th, last seen. Broughton, April 23rd. Outer Hebrides 

 Barra, March 151!!, one in garden. Clyde Beith, April 8th. 

 Lendalfoot, April lyth. Lamlash L.H., Aug. 25th, two. Pollok- 

 shaws and Queen's Park, Glasgow, Sept. i2th. Solway Dumfries, 

 April 1 6th, one. 



Earliest, March i5th, Barra; latest, Sept. 23rd, Methven Boy. 



PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX (Wood Wren). 



Forth Braid Hermitage, May 5th, one singing. Tweed Chirn- 

 side, May 20th, Sept. ist. Clyde Beith, May i/ith. 

 Earliest, May 5th, Braid. 



ACROCEPHALUS PHRAGMiTis (Sedge Warbler). 



Tay Fordoun, May Qth. Forth Comiston, May loth. Braid 

 Burn, May icth. Isle of May, May isth (leg and wing). Tweed 

 Halmyre, May 5th. CHirnside, May ist, not plentiful. Clyde 

 Thornliebank, April 3oth. 



Earliest, April 3oth, Thornliebank. 



LOCUSTELLA N/EViA (Grasshopper Warbler). 

 Clyde, Beith, April 3oth. 



MOTACILLIN.B (Wagtails). 



Shetland North Unst, Wagtails, April 23rd, one. Orkney 

 North Ronaldshay, Wagtails, Sept. yth, nine, seldom seen. Pent- 

 land Skerries, Wagtails, May 5th, several. Sutherland Cape Wrath, 

 Wagtails, April 2 ist, one ; May 2nd, three ; May i5th, two ; Sept. ist, 

 one. Moray M. rail (Yellow Wagtail), July i ith, one in meadows 

 at mouth of Beauly River ("Annals," 1900, p. 48). Dee Rattray 

 Head, M. melanope (Gray Wagtail), Aug. 3oth, at lantern with other 

 birds. Forth Musselburgh, M. lugubris (Pied Wagtail), Sept. i2th, 

 in some numbers. Tweed Chirnside, M. alba (White Wagtail), May 

 1 5th, Tweed. M. ran', May i5th, Whiteadder. Outer Hebrides 

 Island Ghlais, Wagtails, April yth, several. Argyll and Isles Tiree, 

 Wagtail, March 2nd. M. alba, May 3rd, a few; May 5th, many; 



