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seen) from Dunrossness about i/th. On 2nd December a 

 flock at Shurray (Caithness), and several observed at Lenvick on 

 4th December. Observed in the Fair Isle from 24th September 

 till 1 8th October (p. 16). 



P. iMONTANUS (Tree-Sparrow). Forty at Crail in September, and 

 others at Craighead Farm and St. Andrews (p. 50) : small flock 

 at Kirkliston (p. 50) on ist December. A pair observed 

 North Berwick, 2Qth October. Appeared Fair Isle, 8th Septem- 

 ber, and again 2nd October, and till iSth, when twenty-one 

 were seen (p. 16). 



FRINGILLA CCELEBS (Chaffinch). Reported in pairs at Edinburgh 

 on 26th February, and as building there, and at Kirkliston on 

 nth and 1 2th April, but no eggs at latter locality till i6th 

 May. A series of movements is reported between 2gth March 

 and 2oth April, nearly all with S.E. or S. winds, from Unst, 

 Pentland Skerries, Sule Skerry, Lerwick, Dunrossness. After 

 the last date named the species does not reappear in the 

 schedules till ist October! The chief autumn reports are 

 about forty on 8th November, and about twelve i3th November, 

 at the Flannans. At the Fair Isle arrivals of very small numbers 

 were noted on six occasions between 3rd and 2 9th September 

 (p. 15). A partial albino (<?) observed Largo in December, 

 "wings very white, head and body pied." 



F. MONTIFRINGILLA (Brambling). One shot in Tiree, ist March 

 (p. 50). A flock of fifty to sixty for the last week of March 

 at Broughton. A flock at Kirkliston on 8th April, and one 

 bird at Lahill (Fife), 22nd. One sent from the Flannans in the 

 autumn. In considerable numbers at the Fair Isle as early as 

 23rd September, and continued quite numerous till 3oth October 

 and 3rd November, when large flocks were seen with Turdidas 

 (p. 1 6). Arrived at Carmichael (Lanark), where it appears 

 regularly on iSth October. Appeared Mull, 2 ist November, 

 and remained till end of year in Arcs woods. 



LINOTA LINARIA (Mealy Redpoll). Three Mealy Redpolls (sp. ?) are 

 reported from the Flannans, 29th October. They began to 

 appear on iyth September at Fair Isle, numbers greatly increas- 

 ing after 2nd October, and remaining so till Mr. Clarke's 

 departure on yth (p. 17). 



L. HORNEMANNI (Arctic Redpoll). For particulars of the addition 

 of this beautiful species to the fauna of Scotland, readers must 

 refer to Mr. Clarke's account of its discovery at the Fair Isle, 

 where five examples were secured between iSth September 

 and loth October (p. 17). 



