The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



NO. 6 7 ] 1908 [JULY 



REPORT ON SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY 



FOR 1907 



By JOHN PATERSON 



IF the report on the ornithology of Scotland for 1907 lacks 

 some of the distinction of its predecessors, it is still happily 

 full of interest. The conditions that obtained during the 

 year are easy to remember. The first months maintained 

 the boreal traditions which they inherited from the end of 

 the preceding year, although the last week of March, a 

 critical time for the appearance of the first of our summer 

 visitors, proved to be one of the finest of the year. April 

 did not bear out the promise of this burst of fine weather, 

 however, and the same may be said of May, except the week 

 from the I ith till the I 8th. June proved no better than its 

 immediate predecessors, and while July was distinguished by 

 the glorious weather of its second half, the conditions again 

 became unpleasant with the advent of August. September 

 gave us the halcyon conditions we like to associate with it, 

 but the last months did not repeat the harsh conditions of 

 the same months in 1906. 



The conditions obtaining were reflected to some extent 

 in the ornithological phenomena of the year. The great 

 numbers of our winter visitors which distinguished the 

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