146 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



M. <;RISOLA (Spotted Flycatcher). First report, 4th May, Halmyre. 

 No report thereafter till iSth, in N.W. Mull, when one was 

 observed uttering its feeble song. Next report is Carmichael 

 (Lanark), 24th. Dates run late for this species this year. On 

 the 1 4th June it had reached the Flannans, to which it is a 

 new species ("A.S.N.H.," 1905, p. 244). Latest autumn 

 occurrence, Kirkliston, 22nd September. 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA (Swallow). On the 2ist March a true Swallow 

 flew about the village of Lendalfoot (Ayr) for some time, as Mr. 

 Berry informed me shortly thereafter. " Many " are reported as 

 having appeared on Duddingston Loch on yth April, but reports 

 increase daily from the i2th at Beith ; isth, Brodick, Arran. 

 Reported in autumn from eight localities in October between 

 the Qth and 26th ; and on 6th November one is reported by 

 Mr. Hugh Campbell to have been seen by him on a fence 

 at Dalmeny. Also reported from North Berwick on i2th 

 November (W. M. Ingles). 



CHELIDON URBICA (House-Martin). 131)1 April, several at Broughton; 

 i4th, Pentland ; 1 5th, various localities east and west. 23rd 

 October, several at Gilston (Fife) ; 2nd November, North 

 Berwick; i4th, one at Kirkliston, "seen at close quarters." 

 Young still in nest, 2ist September, Craighead, Fife. 



COTILE RIPARIA (Sand-Martin). Inverurie, 5th April (three) ; 6th, 

 Burntisland (one) ; gth, Duddingston, a good many (Evans). 

 Generally observed between i5th and lyth. Last seen, iith 

 September, Edinburgh. 



LIGURINUS CHLORIS (Greenfinch). Many in Unst on 4th January 

 (wind S. E.-E. ), and a few still about 22nd April. Those nesting 

 locally arrive in force in N.W. Mull on 3rd. On i5th from 

 15 to 20 arrive at Lerwick, wind S.E. On i6th built nest at 

 Kirkliston, but did not lay till gth May! i2th August, still in 

 song; and 24th, young just out. igth September, over a 

 hundred seen in crofts in N.W. Mull. 4th December, ten at 

 the Flannans, wind S.E. 



CARDUELIS ELEGANS (Goldfinch). yth May, a pair at Giffnock, and 

 3oth July at Eastwood (both E. Renfrew) one adult feeding a 

 grey young one, which was on a telephone wire (J. Robertson). 

 Two near Gorebridge, gth November (p. 50). 



C. SPINUS (Siskin). At Dunrossness, i2th to i6th April, after a 

 S.E. gale, a few. In the end of October and beginning of 

 November numbers passed over Archerfield near North Berwick. 

 It was unusually plentiful in the Edinburgh district in Novem- 

 ber and December, and many were caught. One was sent 

 from North Ronaldshay, yth November, and one (out of several 



