148 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



L. FLAVIROSTRIS (Twite). Flock of fifty at Delny (Ross) on ist 

 March, " first observed here." The Twite population of the 

 Fair Isle is to be "reckoned in thousands" (p. 17). 



PYRRHULA MAJOR (Northern Bullfinch). - For particulars of the 

 addition of this species also to the Scottish fauna, reference 

 must be made to Mr. Clarke's note on its occurrence in 

 Shetland (p. 115). One was obtained on the Island 

 of Fetlar on 4th November. The numerous references 

 to the occurrences of " bullfinches " which appear in the 

 schedules, etc., from ist November till 3rd December at Foula, 

 Fetlar, Fair Island, and the mainland may well apply to this 

 species, as also those seen at Halligarth (Unst) on i6th April, 

 which seemed larger than usual English specimens. Great 

 numbers of " bullfinches " appeared in the garden at Inverbroom 

 on 26th May. 



EMBERIZA MILIARIA (Corn Bunting). First arrivals at Delny (Ross), 

 7th February. At Falkland nest with three eggs, well incubated 

 on 3rd August ; and on 7th, at Edinburgh, young in nest. At 

 Stronsay, Orkney, nest with four fresh eggs on 2oth September 

 (p. 51). At Robroyston, near Glasgow, on i7th November, 

 in dense fog, with everything covered with rime, one singing 

 the only species in song that day. 



E. CITRINELLA (Yellow Bunting). Last in song Edinburgh, i3th 

 August. At the Flannans on 3oth October, a dozen ; 5th 

 November, eight ; 1 2th, ten. 



E. PUSILLA (Little Bunting). One observed at the Fair Isle, 2nd 

 October (p. 18), being the second Scottish occurrence. 



PLECTROPHENAX NIVALIS (Snow Bunting). At the Flannans, " never 

 so few as this winter, for hundreds only an occasional straggler " 

 (1904-5). On loth October, at Gullane Point, a few (Evans). 



CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS (Lapland Bunting). Three at the Flannans, 

 on Qth April, two (one shot) on nth and one on i4th Sep- 

 tember. First heard at the Fair Isle, 7th September. In 

 some numbers there from the Tith of September till 7th 

 October (p. 18). 



STURNUS VULGARIS (Starling). No movements of importance, such 

 as have been recorded from time to time, seem to have been 

 observed this year. On i2th March, at Unst, a great many, 

 wind N.E. In the first week in March flocks which had roosted 

 in winter left Glenorchard, near Glasgow. At Hawkhead 

 (E. Renfrew), still in flocks in mid-May at the great roosting- 

 place there. Reported to be "in flocks again " in Fife by 3oth 

 May. In July Mr. John Milne counted at Auchinblae (Kin- 

 cardine) 441 that roosted on a "plane" tree (as the great 



