206 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



year, indicates normal conditions. Autumn reports are few, 

 the latest being Largo, 26th September, one bird only observed. 



P. SIBILATRIX (Wood-Wren). Appeared Lamlash (Arran), 2gth 

 April ; Gifford, 4th May. 



ACROCEPHALUS PHRAGMiTis (Sedge-Warbler). An early date is given 

 from Halmyre (Peebles), viz. 24th April ; the next being from 

 Ayr and Beith, yth and 8th May respectively ; Auchinblae, 

 Forfar, loth; Uuddingston and Kirkliston, iith. 



LOCUSTELLA N/EViA (Grasshopper- Warbler). Only reported from 

 Beith, the date i5th May, which is late. 



CINCLUS AQUATICUS (Dipper). Messrs. K. and R. M. Buchanan 

 write : " Found a Dipper's nest on i yth April, and removed 

 therefrom a clutch of absolutely fresh eggs. Seven days later 

 revisited the locality, and remarked that the same or another 

 pair had commenced to build in a situation distant not many 

 feet from the one previously occupied. On 22nd May were 

 again in that district, and found nest completed and five eggs 

 laid, and that the birds, probably owing to dampness, had 

 deserted it and built another nest, using the abandoned structure 

 as a foundation. The upper nest contained five eggs, upon 

 which one of the birds was closely brooding." 



MOTACILLA LUGUBRIS (Pied Wagtail). The lighthouse returns in 

 nearly all cases only record single birds. At inland localities 

 which it leaves for the winter it reappeared at Carmichael, 5th 

 February; Kinnelhead, 2oth March; and "migrating Pied 

 Wagtails" were "noticeable" at Duddingston, iyth April. 

 Again at Edinburgh, 2 yth July, large numbers appeared. In 

 August, at Fairlie, Mr. Robert Wilson got an albino of this or 

 the next species. 



M. ALBA (White Wagtail). There are no East Coast records what- 

 ever. The spring passage is reported from seven " Clyde " 

 localities, beginning at Dalbeth, Lanark, i2th April, one <$ ; 

 reaching its maximum, 301)1, at Irvine, on the coast of Ayr, 

 where two dozen were seen ; and the last appearance is at 

 Inveraray, i5th May. It is reported from Barra on i5th April. 

 The only autumn reports are from the Flannans, where Messrs. 

 Clarke and Laidlaw found it abundant from 6th to 22nd 

 September, and it was still there the day after their departure. 



M. RAII (Yellow Wagtail). Arrived i6th April, Beith ; igth, Govan 

 (3); and at Bishop Loch, Lanark, on 2ist, a dozen <$ and $. 



ANTHUS TRIVIALIS (Tree-Pipit). Reported from Halmyre (Peebles) 

 and Kirkliston on igth; Gartcosh (Lanark), 2ist: and Beith, 

 23rd April. 



