ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 239 



1897, on the shore, near Portincross, West Kilbride, a single bird 

 only coming under observation on that occasion. In the present 

 year, on i3th May, when walking from Ardrossan by the shore to 

 Seamill with my friend Mr. John Robertson, we saw not less than 

 twenty, but on going over this same part of the shore on the 5th of 

 June, on which occasion I extended the walk twice the distance by 

 continuing it to Fairlie, no White Wagtail came under notice. 

 Between the dates last named (on 2ist May) I had had a walk over 

 the sands between Irvine and Troon, and saw one White Wagtail 

 there. Mention of Irvine Sands brings to my recollection that the 

 late Morris Young told me he had found the White Wagtail nesting 

 there. Young's statement was quite categorical. It was not included 

 in Messrs. Barr and Craig's ' List of the Birds of Beith,' published in 

 the "Western Supplement" in May 1894, but it was shortly after- 

 wards included, having been identified by them on soth April 1895 

 or 1896. I cannot be sure of the year at the moment of writing. 

 A "large flock" was seen by them on 6th May 1898 at Kilbirnie 

 Loch, and it was first seen by the same observers this year on 

 3rd May, also at the locality just named. -- JOHN PATERSON, 

 Glasgow. 



King Eider in St. Andrews Bay. Mr. R. Canch writes me as 

 follows: "John Lonie, my brother's man, first saw the bird in the 

 Eden in company with some breeding Eiders ; the smallness of the 

 bird and the beak-tubercle drawing his attention. On the 6th 

 June he shot the bird, and it proved to be a King Eider drake in 

 full adult dress. Lonie stuffed the bird, and tried to sell it. I 

 purchased the specimen from him ; but, not caring for the manner of 

 stuffing, I had it re-stuffed."- -J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Great Shearwaters at St. Kilda. It may be remembered that 

 a specimen of Puffinus major, now in the Edinburgh Museum, was 

 taken within a mile of St. Kilda on 7th August 1897. When at 

 St. Kilda on nth August 1899, two skins of/ 5 , major were awaiting 

 me. These birds were both killed during the last week of July 

 1899, on different days and on different sides of the island, and 

 about a mile from it : one was close to Levenish Rock. No others 

 were seen. HENRY EVANS, Jura Forest. 



[To the above notes Mr. Evans adds: "I saw two of them 

 flying between Barra Head and St. Kilda, about four miles from 

 Barra Head, on the nth June 1899. "--J. A. HARVIE-BROWN.] 



Nyssia zonaria, Schiff., in the Inner Hebrides. Among a 

 number of insects and other objects of natural history recently 

 brought to me by Mr. R. Godfrey for identification, I was delighted 

 to find an unset example of the male of this local moth, which had 

 been captured by Mr. James Baxter on the island of Tiree, Inner 

 Hebrides, in April of the present year. The larva; of this species 



