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Honey Buzzard in Fife. We have to report that a Honey 

 Buzzard (Perm's apivorus} was got on the Largo estate on 2ist 

 May. It was seen hovering over the field in which young pheasants 

 are kept, and was most unfortunately shot. There is a bird of this 

 same species in the Largo Museum, which was got some years ago 

 at Balbirnie. EVELYN V. BAXTER and LEONORA JEFFREY RINTOUL, 

 Largo. 



Bewick's Swan in N.-W. Mull. On 2ist October 1905, I had 

 a note from Mr. Bryce Allan, younger of Aros, stating that a 

 Bewick's Swan (Cygnus bewicki) had appeared in a loch near his 

 house on 191)1 October. I confess that I at once thought there must 

 be some confusion regarding the species, as C. musicus was the only 

 kind hitherto seen by me here. On proceeding to the loch in question 

 I was agreeably pleased to corroborate Mr. Allan's identification 

 of the bird as C. bewicki. I managed to stalk to within 40 yards 

 or so of the bird, and upon showing myself it rose from the loch, 

 and flew round it twice, giving utterance to no sound that I could 

 discern. The occurrence of this species is unusual here, and is 

 worthy of record. D. MACDONALD, Tobermory, Mull. 



Capercaillies in Ayrshire. Apropos of the record of this species 

 in the " Annals of Scottish Natural History " for April, it may be of 

 interest to place on record the following occurrence in the neighbour- 

 ing county of Renfrewshire, for which I am indebted to Mr. A. A. 

 Speirs of Elderslie. On the 6th November a girl who was taking 

 a child for an airing, came to the keeper's house at Linwood and 

 told him that " as she was walking along by the side of the East 

 Wood a ' Cock Pheasant ' had got up close to her and had felled 

 itself against the wire fence." The keeper went to look for the 

 bird, but failed to find it, but on the loth November when taking 

 his dog along that way the dog recovered a hen Capercaillie (Tetrao 

 urogaUus) out of the watering-place on the other side of the hedge. 

 The bird, which was no doubt the same seen by the girl, was too 

 much damaged to preserve. J. MACNAUGHT CAMPBELL, Kelvin- 

 grove Museum, Glasgow. 



Buffon's Skua in Argyll. On 6th June I received, shot on 

 the hills at Morvern, a very fine male specimen of Buffon's Skua 

 (Stercorarius parasiticus), the first example that has passed through 

 my hands during the twenty years I have been here. I got a Stormy 

 Petrel (Procellaria pelagica) from Lunga Treshnish about the same 

 time with a white throat, which I believe is very unusual. CECIL 

 H. BISSHOPP, Oban. 



Richardson's Skua in East Lothian. I have lately seen two 

 immature specimens of Richardson's Skua (Stercorarius crepidatus) 

 in the possession of Mr. Hamilton Ogilvy at Biel House. He tells 

 me that they were shot during a grouse drive in the Lammer- 

 moors on Halls Moor (parish of Shott), by Mr. C. Tunnard, on i6th 



