io ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



of 23rd October ; a lot in the early morning hours of the 28th ; 

 many from 8 P.M. on the 28th till daybreak on the 29th; and 

 a few on the night of 3rd November. 



WHITETHROAT, S. rufa. The first Whitethroat recorded for the 

 season appeared on the lantern at 2 A.M. on i5th May, and in 

 the early hours of the iyth four were attracted by the light, and 

 another at 1.30 A.M. on 2nd June. 



In the autumn one was at the light early on igth August. 

 I saw no Whitethroats on the island till 2ist September, next 

 day there were several about; on the 25th several appeared; 

 and next day the gardens were full of them, and even amid the 

 rocky parts one kept meeting Whitethroats at every turn, some- 

 times in the most unlikely-looking places ; in some cases they 

 were extraordinarily tame. There was one at the lantern that 

 night, but next morning (27th September) I found that the 

 great body had gone on, only a solitary bird being visible. I 

 saw but one more during my stay, on 5th October, in Mr. 

 Ross's garden. There were many more of this species than 

 last year. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT, S. curruca. On 24th September a Lesser 

 Whitethroat appeared in the lighthouse garden. Next day I 

 came upon a most wonderfully tame bird of this species in the 

 same garden. It let me stand within a yard of it, without 

 minding in the least, but would not quite allow itself to 

 be touched. On the 26th September another came in, and 

 another killed itself against the lantern that night. 



BLACKCAP, S. atricapilla. - - 1 saw more Blackcaps this year than 

 last. The first, a full-plumaged male, was seen on 2oth Sept- 

 ember, and flitted about in the hemlock tangle most confidingly. 

 Next day there were two males, and on the 22nd these birds 

 had left and a female had arrived. On 23rd and 26th Sept- 

 ember and 5th October single birds were seen, all males ; on 

 7th October there were several males and one female, but next 

 day only one male was to be seen. One came to the lantern 

 on the night of iyth October. 



GARDEN WARBLER, S. salicaria. One arrived on 2oth September, 

 and there were several in the gardens and tangle every day till 

 the 25th, one on the 26th, and one at the lantern that night. 

 Thereafter only single birds on 2nd and 5th October. They 

 sat very close in the patches of potatoes and were more abund- 

 ant than last year. 



GOLDCREST, R. cristatus. Only two or three Goldcrests were 

 observed during the autumn and winter of 1907-8, and none 

 were observed during our stay on the island last year. This 

 year, however, it was a very different story. The first record 



