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him, or written to him about them, but as I only had a few days 

 in the island, I didn't. I give the above for what it is worth." 

 Dr. M'Rury evidently did not regard it as at all a certainty ; but 

 when his usual accuracy and care are taken into consideration, 

 as well as his great experience of his subject, I feel that I may 

 be permitted to chronicle the account, though the actual proof of 

 its having nested is still wanting. MacGillivray supplements the 

 above with the record of one shot in Barra in April 1898, in full 

 summer plumage, "and another I shot the same day is in the 

 Edinburgh Museum." 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF PHYLLOSCOPUS 

 VIRIDANUS, BLYTH, AND OTHER IN- 

 TERESTING BIRDS AT SCOTTISH LIGHT- 

 STATIONS. 



By WM. EAGLE CLARKE. 



IN connection with the inquiry into the annual migratory 

 movements of birds in Scotland, which is being carried out 

 by Mr. Harvie-Brown, Mr. Laidlaw, and myself, I have 

 received for identification during the year just passed some 

 interesting specimens which are, perhaps, deserving of special 

 record. 



GREENISH WILLOW \\"ARBLER (Phylloscopus viri- 

 ^ fine adult male example was killed at the 



lantern of the Sule Skerry Lighthouse on the night of the 

 5th September, and was forwarded to me in the flesh by Mr. 

 James Tcmison, the keeper. A Garden Warbler {Sylvia 

 Jwrtensis) was captured at the same time. Sule Skerry is a 

 rocky islet lying some forty miles west of Hoy, Orkney, and 

 nearly the same distance N.E. of Cape Wrath. 



This eastern species has only once previously been 

 known to occur in the British Isles, a female specimen having 

 been obtained on the 5th September 1896 by Mr. Caton 

 Haigh on the N.E. coast of Lincolnshire. It is also the 

 fifth recorded occurrence of the bird in Western Europe, it 

 having been captured on three occasions in Heligoland 

 once in the autumn and twice in the spring migration. 



The Scottish specimen is an unusually fine example, the 



