ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 5 1 



we have an unusual amount this winter. EVELYN V. BAXTER and 

 LEONORA JEFFREY RINTOUL, Colinsburgh, Fife. 



Yellow - browed Warbler at Skerryvore Lighthouse. A 



Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus siiperciliosus] was captured on 

 the morning of the 2ist September at 2.30 A.M. At 8 P.M. the 

 previous night a few Meadow Pipits made their appearance, gradu- 

 ally increasing in numbers till 10 P.M., when they were to be seen in 

 hundreds, resting on and flying about the lantern. At 1 1 P.M. one 

 young Ring Ouzel killed itself, that being the only one seen. One 

 Thrush was seen, also several White Wagtails ; and Redshanks and 

 Golden Plovers flying about most of the night. Two Jack Snipe were 

 found dead at the foot of the Tower in the morning. The wind was 

 S.E. all night, and had been blowing moderately from E. and S.E. for 

 three days previous. It was what might be called a lovely night, 

 wind light airs, horizon hazy, but overhead the stars were shining 

 fairly bright. The haze was just dense enough to make the beams 

 of light from the lantern very distinct. The Yellow-browed Warbler 

 struck against the glass at 2.30 A.M., and was picked up dead. No 

 other warblers were seen that night. Mr. Eagle Clarke has kindly 

 examined the specimen, and confirms my identification. JAMES 

 TOMISON, Skerryvore Lighthouse. 



Migration of the Redbreasted Flycatcher (Musricapa parva}. 

 As showing the extent which a migratory movement often covers, 

 it may be of interest to record that on 2oth September, the day on 

 which the Redbreasted Flycatchers were seen on Fair Island by Mr. 

 Eagle Clarke, as mentioned by him in his interesting note, p. 236, 

 one was shot in Norfolk, and on i8th September two more, which I 

 have examined and find to be young birds. At the same time 

 several Arctic Bluethroats were seen, another species also met with 

 by Mr. Clarke on this northern island, which seems so favoured by 

 migrants. J. H. GURNEY, Keswick, Norfolk. 



[Another Redbreasted Flycatcher was obtained at Fair Isle 

 on 4th October. W. E. C] 



Rose-coloured Pastors in Foula. On the 28th of October five 

 or six rose-coloured Pastors (Pastor roseus) appeared in the garden 

 of the Congregational Manse at Foula, Shetland, one of them being 

 a fine adult male. A southerly wind prevailed at the time of their 

 visit. WM. ROBERTSON, The Manse, Foula. 



[This bird has on several occasions visited Shetland, but never 

 before to our knowledge in the numbers indicated. EDS.] 



Capereaillie in Midlothian. My friend J. S. Tait of Bavelaw 

 tells me that his keeper reported to him that two Capereaillie had 

 been seen in the woods there in the beginning of August. Mr. 

 Tait himself, in September, flushed the two birds, and saw them 

 quite clearly. Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael writes that these two 



