220 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



LARIN^E (Gulls). 



! Shetland Dunrossness, Glaucous Gull (Z. glaucus\ Oct. 29, 

 Nov. 7, 24; Black-headed Gulls (Z. ridibundus) arrive to breed 

 March 27, greatly increasing. Sutherland Glaucous Gull (Z. 

 g/aucus), Dalrawillan, March 8. Moray Little Gull (Z. minutus), 

 Loch Ness, Jan. 8. Solway Little Gull (Z. minutus), Solway 

 Firth, Jan. 



STERCORARIUS CREPIDATUS (Richardson's Skua). 



Shetland N. Unst, March 29, April 13. Argyll and Isles 

 Tiree, May 20, several. 



MERGULUS ALLE (Little Auk). 



Shetland Dunrossness, Dec. 31. Orkney Hoy, Dec. 23, 24, 

 many. Tay St. Andrews, Jan. 10 ; Crail, Dec. 29 ; Elie, Dec. 31. 

 Forth Collessie, Feb. ; E. Linton, Dec. 2 2 ; North Berwick, Dec. 

 26. Outer Hebrides Barra, March 7. 



PODICIPEDID/E (Grebes). 



Shetland Dunrossness, Oct. 20, two Little Grebes (P. fluvia- 

 tilis). Argyll and Isles Tiree, Nov. 10, several Sclavonian 

 Grebes (P. auritits). Solway Great Crested Grebe (P. cristatus\ 

 Myreton Loch, Wigtown, June (also nesting in Fifeshire). 



FULMARUS GLACIALIS (Fulmar Petrel). 



Sutherland Sandside, Sept. 27. Moray Nairn, Sept. 8. 

 Forth Dunbar, Sept. 23. 



LIST OF THE BIRDS OF EAST RENFREWSHIRE. 1 



By JOHN PATERSON and JOHN ROBERTSON. 



THE area to which the following notes relate is the present 

 political division of East Renfrewshire, which embraces the 

 whole of the parishes of Eaglesham, Mearns, and Eastwood, 

 the Renfrewshire part of the Renfrewshire parish of Cathcart, 

 and the Renfrewshire portion of the Lanarkshire parish of 

 Govan. The extent of the district is not great, being 

 roughly twelve miles north and south, and seven at the 

 broadest part, although the average breadth is much less. 

 There are no striking physical features throughout the area, 

 1 Read before the Andersonian Naturalists' Society, 4th September 1895. 



