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A. PRATENSIS (Meadow-Pipit. A number seen at Pentland Skerries 

 2oth March, reappeared, Carmichael (Lanark), 3oth March, 

 and was numerous at the Flannans, 2oth May. Reported from 

 lighthouses all round the coasts in autumn between iSth 

 August (Sule Skerry), and 2 8th October (Bell Rock). At 

 Beith, Mr. Barn found a nest with six eggs. 



A. OBSCURUS (Rock-Pipit). An albino was secured at Barra on ist 

 September. 



LANIUS EXCUBITOR (Great Grey Shrike). One ($} shot in May, 

 near Rumbling Bridge. ("A.S.N.H.," 1904, p. 244). 



AMPELIS GARRULUS (Waxwing). At Nethy, Inverness-shire, in 

 January, a flock of forty or fifty, which gradually disappeared, 

 though four were still to be seen in the first week of May. 

 ("A.S.N.H.," 1904, p. 188). 



MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA (Pied Flycatcher). Pentland Skerries, 6th, 

 7th May ; Colinsburgh, 8th ; North Berwick, 8th, gth, a good 

 many; Tentsmuir, gth; Largo, i2th. At Flannans, i3th Septem- 

 ber; Pentland Skerries, i4th; Barra, iyth ; and Flannans 2oth. 



M. GRISOLA (Spotted Flycatcher). Halmyre, 4th May ; Burntisland, 

 9th; Lamlash, i5th, in pairs; Dundrennan 5th June, in passage; 

 Strathyre, 3ist May, three eggs slightly incubated. Latest 

 autumn date, Duddingston, i6th September. Mr. Barr, Beith, 

 writes that the earlier nests found by him in 1904 contained 

 from four to five eggs, but in July he saw six nests each with 

 three eggs. 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA (Swallow). On the Clyde at Carmichael on 

 1 3th April, 200 Swallows and Sand Martins, at Noup Head 

 (i), and at Beith, same date, and on i4th at Cloverhill and 

 Cramond. At Kirkliston and Hunterston (Ayr) on 151!! 

 October, and Dunbar, 5th November. 



H. URBICA (House -Martin). Dundrennan (Solway), i8th (i); 

 Burntisland, 2ist (several); Kirkmuirhill (Lanark), 28th; 

 Halmyre, 29th April, "very late this year." Most records 

 refer to first week in May. Last seen Kirkliston, 4th October. 



COTILE RIPARIA (Sand-Martin). First spring record, Whiting Bay, 

 Arran, 2gth March; next East Linton, 4th April; and from 

 eight mainland localities between i3th and 3oth April ; Lerwick, 

 i yth May (2), 25th (2). See under Swallow above. 



COCCOTHRAUSTES vuLGARis (Hawfinch). One at Tyninghame, 

 February ; one at Skerryvore, 28th April ; one Unst, 3rd May ; 

 one Peterhead, 2oth July. ("A.S.N.H." 1904, pp. 126, 

 157, l8 7, 2 44-) 



CARDUELIS SPINUS (Siskin). Unst, Shetland, igth April, one or two. 



