MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1899 85 



TRINGA SUBARQUATA (Curlew Sandpiper). 

 Dee Aberdeen, Aug. i6th (wing sent). 



TRINGA CANUTUS (Knot). 



Dee Aberdeen, April 29th, five. Rattray Head, Sept. 4th, 

 flock. Forth Aberlady Bay, July 23rd, five, three red. 



MACHETES PUGNAX (Ruff). 



Orkney Harray, Sept. 2ist, $. Caithness Latheron, Sept. 

 nth, young ? ; Sept. i3th, &. Forth -- Aberlady, Aug. 26th, 

 four. 



CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Sanderling). 



Dee Aberdeen, May 2oth, ten. Rattray Head, Nov. igth, 

 one. Forth Aberlady, Aug. 7th, five; Aug. 26th, several. Argyll 

 and Isles Dhuheartach, May 8th, one. Tiree, Sept. ist, returned. 

 Clyde Barassie, May 2ist-22nd, 25th. 



TOTANUS HYPOLEUCUS (Common Sandpiper). 



Tay Fordoun, May 2nd. Forth Loch Lubnaig, April i6th. 

 Gencorse Burn, April 2ist. Almond, April 2ist. Isle of May, May 

 loth, one killed. Tweed Halmyre, April 22nd, several. Broughton, 

 April 23rd. Argyll and Isles Tiree, May i6th. Clyde Dalbeth, 

 Thornliebank, and Beith, April i6th. Lendalfoot, May iyth. Lam- 

 lash L.H., April i gth, a pair; April 2oth, numerous. Thankerton, 

 April 24th, two. Beith, Sept. 8th. 



Earliest, April i6th, Loch Lubnaig, Dalbeth, etc. 



TOTANUS FUSCUS (Spotted Redshank). 



Clyde Balgray Dam, Sept. 1 6th- 1 7th, two birds ("Annals," 

 1900, pp. 51-52). Sohvay Feb. i3th, shot at Kirkbean Row 

 ("Annals," 1899, p. 112). 



TOTANUS CANESCENS (Greenshank). 



Forth Aberlady, Aug. 26th, one. Argyll and Isles Tiree, July 

 1 3th, two, young birds ; Aug. 1 5th and 1 7th, several. Clyde Balgray 

 Dam, 1 6th, two; one remained till Oct. i4th. 



LIMOSA LAPPONICA (Bar-tailed Godwit). 



Forth Musselburgh, April 4th, a flock of twenty. Aberlady Bay, 

 July 8th, forty, two red. Argyll and Isles Tiree, Oct. 28th, flock. 

 Clyde Bute, May i8th, two; Sept. 8th, one. 



