MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1902 153 



SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA (Eider Duck). 



Orkney Noup Head, Sept. 22, three, first this season. Tay 

 Bell Rock, Feb.-March, seen nearly every day ; April 3, last ; 

 Sept. 27, four $ 's. Outer Hebrides Flannans, April 6, five (3 <?, 

 2?); Sept. 15, flock of seventy-two. Argyll and Isles Skerry- 

 vore, Oct. 3, a flock; Nov. 27, more numerous than in former 

 years. 



SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS (King Eider). 



Shetland Dunrossness, March, one seen ("Annals," 1902, 



P- 183). 



CEDEMIA NIGRA (Common Scoter). 



Forth Aberlady, June 7, flock of 176 ; Oct. 15, Nov. 3, a few 

 pairs seen every day. 



CEDEMIA FUSCA (Velvet Scoter). 



Forth Aberlady, April 20, hundreds off Gullane Point; June 

 7, one; Oct. i5-Nov. 3, numbers. Solway Dumfries, Oct. 29, an 

 old $ shot on the Nith, five or six miles from the firth ("Annals," 

 1903, p. 50). 



TURTUR COMMUNIS (Turtle Dove). 



Shetland Dunrossness, May 28, appeared after a gale from 

 S.S.W., and during 2nd and 3rd week in June a good many were 

 about ("Annals," 1902, p. 252). 



COTURNIX COMMUNIS (Quail). 



Shetland Dunrossness, must have a considerable number breed- 

 ing this year; calling all round ("Annals," 1902, p. 252). 



CREX PRATENSIS (Corn-crake). 



Orkney Noup Head, May 3, one heard, six days earlier than 

 last year. Moray Fochabers, April 30. Forth Aberfoyle, April 

 27. Kirkliston, April 28. Tweed Halmyre, April 20. Hawick 

 and Broughton, April 30. I Vest -Ross Garve, May 9. Outer 

 Hebrides Flannans, June 5. Argyll and Isles Tiree, June 3. 

 Clyde Dairy, April 22. Giffnock, Beith, and Dunlop, April 24. 

 Solway Maxwelltown, May 5, one ; gth, scarce up till now. 



Earliest, Tweed, Halmyre, April 20. 



RALLUS AQUATICUS (Water Rail). 



Forth Isle of May. Oct. 13, one. Outer Hebrides Barra, 

 Oct., 2nd week, arrived. Argyll and Isles Dhuheartach, April 7 

 one killed at lantern; T:ree, Oct. 24. 



(To be continued.} 



