MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1894 209 



FORTH. 



Locality. Name of Observer. 



Doune, Perthshire Lt.-Col. W. H. M. Duthie. 



Callander and the Lothians William Evans. 



Dalmeny Park Charles Campbell. 



Mid and West Lothian Bruce Campbell. 



Edinburgh district T. G. Laidlaw. 



TWEED. 



Hallmyre, Peebles David Laidlaw. 



Chirnside and Eastern Bor- Charles Stuart, M.D. 

 ders 



OUTER HEBRIDES. 

 North Bay, Barra John MacRury, M.B. 



WEST Ross. 

 Shieldaig Donald Matheson. 



ARGYLL AND INNER HEBRIDES. 



Skerryvore L.H. John Nicol, Lightkeeper. 



Tiree Peter Anderson. 



Oban district William Evans. 



Ben Nevis The Observatory Staff. 



CLYDE. 



Ailsa Craig L.H. William Tulloch, Lightkeeper. 



Various localities Glasgow J. Paterson ; J. Robertson ; H. B. Watt, 

 district 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



The weather during the spring of 1894 was more varied 

 in character than in that of the previous year, the warm 

 genial days of April being followed in May by northerly 

 winds brinerina- frost and snow-showers. The average dates of 



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arrival of the summer visitants are much the same, however, 

 as in 1893 ; a few exceptionally early dates being recorded 

 for the Swallow (April 4), Swift (April 26), and Cuckoo 

 (April 4-7). 



There is little to notice with regard to the spring migration, 

 and birds are reported as scarce both on the East and West 



