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TROGLODYTES PARVULUS (Wren). Several reports from the 

 Flannans between yth and 2oth November. In the North 

 Glasgow district on i2th November they appeared to be every- 

 where. 



MOTACILLA LUGUBRIS (Pied Wagtail). From mid-February to mid- 

 March generally observed migrating. Full clutch of eggs at 

 Edinburgh on 4th May. Migrants reappear at Kirkliston loth, 

 Edinburgh igih July in small numbers, very numerous at 

 Kirkliston on 4th August. Several hundreds still roost every 

 night in the winter, on the G.P.O., Edinburgh, as they have 

 done for many years past local birds (W. Evans). 



M. ALBA (White Wagtail). ipth March, at Thornliebank, one 

 observed by several Glasgow ornithologists and the writer. 

 2nd April, one at Bute. Many observations in the west after 

 these date?, and till 2oth May. The Flannans, Mull, Sule 

 Skerry, and Fife Ness supply September occurrences. This 

 was the only Wagtail seen by Mr. Clarke at the Fair Isle, 

 where one was still to be seen when he left on yth October 

 (p. 19). 



M. RAII (Yellow Wagtail). -- i5th April, Beith ; i6th, Dalbeth 

 (Lanark), are the earliest appearances. At Beith, on 23rd 

 May, a nest and six fresh eggs. 



ANTHUS TRIVIALIS (Tree-Pipit). At Duddingston Manse, on ist 

 April, and Carmichael Manse, Lanarkshire, on 2nd April quite 

 exceptional occurrences if no error has crept in. At Halmyre 

 and Beith on 22nd April, and in various other localities till 

 3oth. Last in song at Kirkliston, iSth July. One shot Fair 

 Isle, 3oth September (p. So). 



A. PRATENSIS (Meadow-Pipit). First movement 22nd February, 

 N.W. Mull ; a few, and generally observed migrating, in March. 

 On 22nd March at Balerno and elsewhere at base of Pentlands, 

 was returning to breeding grounds, and on 24th had returned 

 to Carmichael (Lanark). On i2th to i6th, great numbers at 

 Dunrossness, with S.E. gale. Singing at Glasgow, 2 yth. From 

 1 2th August to nth September in flocks of varying size at 

 Sule Skerry, Bell Rock, Kirkliston, and Flannans. At the Fair 

 Isle till yth October. It arrived there iith September, and 

 many left on i5th. 



MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA (Pied Flycatcher). After a S.E. gale on 

 1 2th April, one at Dunrossness; i6th to i8th, a few at Unst ; 

 24th April, Thornhill (Dumfries). In Bolton Parish, East 

 Lothian, a male, and half a mile away a female, on iith May 

 (H. N. Bonar). Nesting near Edinburgh ("A.S.N.H.," 1905), 

 and Thornhill (I.e. p. 243). 



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