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VANELLUS VULGARIS (Lapwing). Spring call, Clarkston, Glasgow, 

 loth February. Several in pairs i6th February, Fairlie (Ayr). 

 A few seen daily since 2Oth February, and arrived in numbers at 

 Pentland Skerries by 4th March. Abundant and vociferous 

 on Mearns Moor (E. Renfrew) 23rd March. Laying at 

 Kirkliston 4th April. Seen in flocks at Lake of Menteith, 

 1 9th May. At Swordale 2oth June in small flocks, 5th July 

 large flocks. At Bridgend, Islay, 400-500 on i8th July. At 

 Swordale again on 23rd September in enormous flocks. 

 Observed on the Isle of May nth September till yth October, 

 the greatest number on 3oth September (p. 20). One at 

 Dumbarnie Links (Fife) with two white primaries in each wing. 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Turnstone). On i3th May a dozen in Bute ; 

 1 7th June, Broad Bay, Stornoway, six. On August ist, half-a- 

 dozen at Laggan Bay (Islay) ; flock at Sule Skerry, i ith August ; 

 twenty-five (adult) in Mull, i5th August; and a great many at 

 Barra, 28th to 3ist August. 



H^EMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS (Oyster-Catcher). May nth in Bute, 

 nest with two eggs ; i2th, one with four ; i3th, three with one, 

 two, and three eggs respectively. Flock of fourteen on 6th 

 June in Outer Hebrides when all others were engaged incubat- 

 ing (p. 23). On 1 4th June at Edenmouth, large flocks. 



PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS (Red-necked Phalarope). - - Females 

 arrived Outer Hebrides 28th May till loth June, and were 

 followed later by the males (p. 23). One shot Powfoot on the 

 Annan, the first Solway specimen (p. 120). 



SCOLOPAX RUSTICULA (Woodcock). - - Two to three hundred at 

 Touch (Stirlingshire) on loth March (A.S.N.H., 1907, p. 144). 

 More than usually plentiful in Dumfriesshire this season, " and 

 already (ist September) many have been shot" (I.e. p. 249). 



GALLINAGO CCELESTIS (Common Snipe). Drumming at Loch 

 Libo (Renfrew) on 26th February. In pairs Edinburgh, i7th 

 March; numerous on i4th April at Mearns (Renfrew); two 

 nests with four eggs each, one incubated the other fresh, at 

 Loch Libo on 3oth April. Unusual numbers nesting near 

 Sorn and Muirkirk. At Loch Libo on 2oth October Mr. 

 M'Keith counted 80, on 24th November 247, and believed 

 there were more, and on gth December 180. On one day 

 in November or December, fifteen and a half brace got at 

 Girlsta, ten miles from Lerwick. Although the ground was in 

 capital order they were not at all plentiful in Tiree (p. 1 1 8). 

 Reported bleating in the evening at Glenorchard near 

 Glasgow, on 2 ist November and i4th December. 



G. GALLINULA (Jack Snipe). One with two heads reported from 

 Arbroath, loth to i5th January. "Despite this abnormality it 



