MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1902 145 



MOTACILLA RAII (Yellow Wagtail). 



Clyde Beith, April 14, Cambuslang, April 15. Lendalfoot, 

 April 19. 



ANTHUS PRATENSIS (Meadow Pipit). 



Orkney Sule Skerry, Sept. 24, a rush, with Wheatears and Pied 

 Wagtails. Dee Buchanness, Nov. 4-5, flying round light, several 

 killed, Thrushes, Blackbirds, Starlings, etc. Tay Bell Rock, April 

 17-18, a few. Forth Davidson's Mains, Sept. 22, fields swarming 

 with migrating Pipits. Outer Hebrides Flannans, Feb. i, numbers 

 dead on the island through starvation and cold ; Sept. 1 7, very 

 numerous; Sept. 26-27, very numerous, great many killed; Sept. 

 30 to Oct. 7, rushes of birds, Wher tears, etc., many killed. Argyll 

 and Isles Skerryvore, Feb. 25, at lantern; 27th, with Thrushes at 

 light; Aug. 28, six; Sept. 9, rush of Pipits, Wheatears, etc., twenty 

 killed; Sept. 26-29, numbers at light, with Larks and other birds, 

 many killed striking. Dhuheartach, Feb. 23, numbers at light, 

 Thrushes, Starlings, etc. ; March 1-6, at light, with Larks; April 10- 

 14, several on rock; Aug. 22 to Sept. 17, great numbers passing 

 with other birds, going S.E. anr 1 S. Clyde Carmichael, Feb. 6, 

 one ; March 24, returned to nesting ground. 



Principal movements, Feb. 23-28; Sept. 24-27; Nov. 4-5. 



ANTHUS TRIVIALIS (Tree Pipit). 



Moray - - Fochabers, April 16. Tay Rannoch, April 24. 

 Forth Aberfoyle, E. Linton, and Kirkliston, April 24. Tweed 

 Halmyre, April 28. West Ross Garve, April 23. Clyde Lendal- 

 foot, April 1 6. Beith and Gadder, April 20. 



Earliest, Moray and Clyde, April 16. 



LANIUS EXCUBITOR (Great Grey Shrike). 



Tweed St. Boswells, April 9, one ("Field," 7th June 1902, 

 p. 893). Halmyre, Nov. 22, a $ shot. One was obtained near 

 Leadburn about the end of September. 



MUSCICAPA GRISOLA (Spotted Flycatcher). 



Moray Fochabers, May 26. Dee Aberdeen, May 24, four. 

 Tay Auchinblae, May 30 ; Aug. 10, last. Forth Duddingston, 

 May 3. Tweed Halmyre, May i. Broughton, May 4. Clyde 

 Lendalfoot, May 3. Queen's Park, Glasgow, Sept. 22. Carmichael, 

 Sept. 24. 



Earliest, Tweed, Halmyre, May i. 

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