REPORT ON SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY FOR 1906 143 



CUCULUS CANORUS (Cuckoo). 2Qth April, North Berwick; 3oth, 

 Caldwell and Broughton ; 4th May, Beattock, Carmichael, and 

 West Calder; 5th, Torduff, Pentland Hills (Evans), Bute and 

 Inverbroom ; 6th, Teasses and Lahill in Fife, Swordale (E. 

 Ross), and Mull ; July 3rd, calling half-an-hour at Caldwell. 

 Said to be scarcer this year in North Uist and Lewis (p. Si). 

 At Pentland Skerries, yth November, one. 



STRIX FLAMMEA (White or Barn Owl). ayth July, returns to nest- 

 ing-place (Edinburgh). 



A. ACCIPITRINUS (Short-eared Owl). Kinnear only saw one or two 

 in the Outer Hebrides, and these were in South Uist (p. 81). 

 i gth September, Dunnet (i); 8th October, Spiggie (Shetland), 

 (i); 22nd October, Bell Rock, one caught in Tower window, 

 Pentland Skerries same date (i); 23rd, Spiggie (i). In small 

 numbers end October till second week November at Fair Isle 

 . (p. 78). 



NYCTEA SCANDIACA (Snowy Owl). 3oth January, Unst, one shot 

 (p. 50); 6th and yth May, Flannans (i). 



CIRCUS CYANEUS (Hen Harrier). Twice seen in Barra and seen in 

 North Uist where a few pairs said to nest (p. Si). 



BUTEO LAGOPUS (Rough-legged Buzzard). loth November or about 

 that date, one killed in Gorebridge district (Evans). i6th 

 November, one (?) in Caithness. 



PERNIS APIVORUS (Honey-Buzzard). One shot at Largo on 2ist 

 May ("Annals," 1906, p. 186). 



FALCO CANDICANS (Greenland Falcon). 26th May, Barra, one shot 

 ("Annals," 1906, p. 237). 



F. ISLANDUS (Iceland Falcon). Eye Peninsula, Lewis, 2Sth February, 

 one obtained ("Annals," 1906, p. 185). 



(To be continued.'] 



THE SPRING RETURN OF THE WOODCOCKS 

 IN FORTH AND CLYDE. 



By J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



THE return of the Woodcocks and the passing of the spring- 

 migration of these birds has always been a prominent 

 feature in the central districts of Scotland, which lie between 

 the Firths of Forth and Clyde ; nearly always remarkable 



