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five pale blue eggs without markings at Beith, not a Pied 

 Flycatcher's. Plentiful, 4th August to 3rd September, Largo. 

 Last at Swordale, isth September. Last on Isle of May, 25th 

 and 26th September (p. 13). 



M. PARVA (Red-breasted Flycatcher). Butt of Lewis, ist November, 

 one (p. 48). Outer Hebrides, 3rd November, one (p. 3). 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA (Swallow). On 1 2th April one at Beith, and on 

 same date one at Cambuslang. Thereafter until 25th inclusive, 

 not a single report ! From 26th till 3rd May inclusive, reports 

 from sixteen localities chiefly on and from 3oth April. Lays 

 at Kirkliston, i6th May. On 4th July, at Mearns (Renfrew), 

 in a nest in which young had been brought out this year were 

 four eggs of the second laying slightly incubated. At Kirkliston 

 young still in nest on 2ist September, and on October ist, in 

 Mull, second brood of a pair left with their parents. Corsock 

 (Kirkcudbrightshire), 22nd November. 



CHELIDON URBICA (House- Martin). Abundant, Lamlash, 3oth 

 April; ist May, Dairy (Ayr), and same date Colinsburgh (i); 

 other five localities on mainland, 2nd and 3rd respectively. 

 In Mull two pairs arrived, nth. On 2yth June completes 

 nest at Mearns (Renfrew) in five days. At Mull second brood 

 left nest, 3oth August. One in Mull on 5th November. 



COTILE RIPARIA (Sand-Martin). On 3 ist March at Lamlash (3) ; 

 at Rouken Glen (Glasgow) on 5th April, one, but this species 

 not again seen there till 3rd May (several). On 1 3th April at 

 Duddingston (i) (Evans). Chiefly observed from 2)th April 

 till ;th May. Monach on 26th October. 



LIGURINUS CHLORIS (Greenfinch). Sings at Colinsburgh on 24th 

 February, and nest and two eggs there, i6th April, igth July, 

 at Mearns, nest in hedge built almost entirely of sheep's wool. 

 Flocking in large numbers at Mull on 22nd August. Last 

 in song at Kirkliston on 24th August. A lot on the Isle of 

 May on iyth October (p. 14). Several at Butt of Lewis on 

 9th November. 



COCCOTHRAUSTES vuLGARis (Hawfinch). At the Grove Gardens 

 (Galloway), gth April, 9 accidentally trapped ("Ann. Scot. 

 Nat. Hist.," 1908, p. 253). At Tyneholm, Pencaitland, 3rd 

 July, young <$ (p. 48). At Lauder (Berwick), 9 and one 

 young in August (I.e., pp. 252, 253). One in spring on the Fair 

 Isle (p. 71). 



CARDUELIS ELEGANS (Goldfinch). Cathcart (Renfrew), 2 ist March 

 (5); Williamwood (E*. Renfrew), 22nd May (c?); Symington 

 (Lanark), 4th July, two pairs. 



