200 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



L. MUTUS (Ptarmigan). One practically at sea-level in South Uist 

 on ist June (p. 83). 



PHASIANUS COLCHICUS (Pheasant). Near Edinburgh on 2gth April 

 nest with fourteen eggs (Binnie). 



PERDIX CINEREA (Partridge). At Kirkliston lays on 26th April. 

 At Gilston (Fife) on 3rd June nest and sixteen eggs. 



COTURNIX COMMUNIS (Quail). This species was heard during July 

 calling in the fields adjoining the links at Balcomie (Crail) by 

 the writer. Two were taken in Fife during the summer, one 

 at Freuchie and the other at Inverkeilor (p. 117). One got at 

 Sandside, Reay, on 3oth September. 



CREX PRATENSIS (Corn-crake). There are usually reports of the 

 appearance of this species in April from several localities, but 

 this year the earliest reports are Burntisland and Lennoxlove 

 (Haddington) ist May. Kinnear was told that it was scarcer 

 than usual round Stornoway this year (p. 84). Still calling at 

 Crossmyloof (Glasgow) and Fairlie (Ayr) on 6th August. One 

 shot at Lahill (Fife) on 26th September, and one killed i8th 

 October at Unst (p. 50). 



PORZANA MARUETTA (Spotted Crake). One shot at Stornoway on 

 i5th October (The Field, loth November 1906, p. 822). 



RALLUS AQUATICUS (Water-Rail). One seen in N. Uist on 6th 

 February ("Annals," 1906, p. 114). Young one unable to fly 

 in Tiree in August (Lc. p. 237). At the Pentland Skerries on 

 9th October and i2th. Two at Spiggie on i7th. In the 

 Fair Isle observed from 28th September till December (p. 79). 



GRUS COMMUNIS (Crane). One shot near Stornoway on the i4th 

 May (p. 84), and another observed two days later in North 

 Shetland (p. 50). 



EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Dotterel). A bird of the year received 

 in the flesh in September from the Flannans (p. 53). 



^EGIALITIS HIATICOLA (Ringed Plover). Three newly hatched 

 young on 7th August, in Fife. "No nests this year [Fife] 

 with over three eggs and several birds sitting on two." 



CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS (Golden Plover). One black-breasted at 

 Cardross, i3th February. At Swordale a pair returned to 

 Moor on i9th March and reported on Mearns Moor 

 (E. Renfrew) on 25th. In the last named locality had eggs 

 by 22nd April, well incubated, and on 29th observed one 

 " on her nest, her neck was stretched full out, and her head 

 rested on the ground while the wings were slightly extended " 

 (Robert Wilson). In October and November at Skerryvore 

 a few two or three daily from the north, proceeding S. after 



