16 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



excellent view of it. It was a very neat little bird, and seemed 

 neither tired nor shy. We then completely lost sight of it, but 

 either it or another appeared next day out of a turnip-patch, 

 took flights to the telephone wire, then down to the cabbages, 

 the stem of a dock, and finally to a sow-thistle, where it appeared 

 to be catching insects, and where we luckily secured it. 



WILLOW- WARBLER, Phylloscopus trochilus. One was seen on i2th 

 September and a good many in the gardens on the 1 3th (W. 

 wind, fresh) ; they, however, did not stay long, as there were 

 none on the i4th. One on the i5th, two on the 2oth, a lot 

 on the 2ist, and several on the 2 and, one appeared on the 

 26th, and another from 2Qth September to ist October. 

 One got by Mr. Maccuish on the loth October and forwarded 

 to us. 



SEDGE-WARBLER, Acrocephalus schcenobcenus. We put one out of 

 covert in the lighthouse garden on the loth September, and 

 one was found dead on the roof of the lighthouse on the night 

 of 1 3th September. 



PIED WAGTAIL, Motadlla lugubris. This was the only Wagtail seen 

 on the island ; we saw them constantly from the nth September 

 to the ist October, in both adult and immature plumage. 



MEADOW-PIPIT, Anthus pratensis. Seen every day during our stay : 

 in numbers till the 24th September, then a few till the 3oth, 

 when they reappeared, remaining numerous till 4th October, 

 thereafter a few each day. On the 25th September they were 

 doing their parachute flight, with an attempt at song. 



ROCK-PIPIT, Anthus obscurus. Seen every day in varying numbers ; 

 a lot till iyth September, when great crowds were on the island. 

 The numbers diminished in the afternoon, but a good many 

 remained till the 24th, when only a few were seen. Next day, 

 however, there were more, and they continued plentiful till 5th 

 October when most of them left. Two were taken at the 

 lantern on the night of yth October. 



RED-BACKED SHRIKE, Lanins collurio. We procured a young 

 female of this species on the 2 yth September in a remarkable 

 stage of plumage which does not agree with any of the 

 published descriptions. We compared it with the Shrikes in 

 the Royal Scottish Museum, including young Red-backed 

 Shrikes which had been procured at Fair Isle about the same 

 date, but it differed much in plumage from all of them. It 

 was finally sent to the Tring Museum to be compared with the 

 specimens in Mr. Rothschild's collection, which is so rich in 

 Pakearctic birds, and was pronounced to be an abnormally- 

 coloured young Red-backed Shrike. In this singular specimen 



