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CE. PERSPICILLATA (Surf-Scoter). From i4th to 2ist December one 

 observed at Stromness (p. 117). 



MERGUS MERGANSER (Goosander). Two in the Sound of Lingay off 

 the north end of North Uist, 3ist October (p. 53). 



M. SERRATOR (Red-breasted Merganser). Lots at Largo on 29th 

 April. At the Fair Isle single birds from iyth September till 

 7th October (p. 73). At Crail, on 29th September, a flock 

 flying N. 



COLUMBA PALUMBUS (Ring- Dove). Getting more numerous at 

 Delny (Ross) on i7th February. In flocks again in Fife by 

 5th June, and unusually large flocks there in the autumn. Last 

 heard cooing 22nd October, and young still in nest at Kirk- 

 liston 26th. In Bute by the i6th of April this species and the 

 Stock-dove and Rock-dove all had eggs (Robert Wilson). 



TURTUR COMMUNIS (Turtle-Dove). Lerwick, 4th December, one. 



TETRAO UROGALLUS (Capercaillie). One ( ? ) shot at Teasses, Fife, 

 25th November, and another at Tarbolton Moss (Ayr) i4th 

 December. 



COTURNIX COMMUNIS (Quail). Breeding in the Fair Isle in July 

 (P- 74)- 



CREX PRATENSIS (Corn-crake). -- Earliest records are Dairy (Ayr) 

 26th, Halmyre 27th, Beith 3oth April; Dippen (Arran) ist, 

 Edinburgh 2nd, Thornliebank (E. Renfrew) 3rd, Broughton 

 5th May. In Mr. John Robertson's opinion there were less 

 than half the usual number in East Renfrew in 1905. Heard 

 at Beattock on 20th June, first "since 1901 when two nested 

 in my hayfields " (Jas. Bartholomew). Last heard calling at 

 Caldwell 22nd July. Several killed during a snowstorm at 

 Balavil, Kingussie ("The Field," 6th January 1906, p. 36), 

 in December. 



EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Dotterel). An immature one at Pinkie, 

 24th April, and another ( $ ) near Denny, 1 3th May (" A.S.N.H.," 



1905, P- 245)- 



.^EGIALITIS HIATICOLA (Ringed Plover). At Lerwick flocks on 22nd 

 January and 1 5th October. Four at the Flannans 22nd July, 

 one 23rd August. Small party, probably natives, left the Fair 

 Isle in the third week of September (p. 74). 



CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS (Golden Plover). Returns to Carmichael 

 (Lanark) ist February. At Bridge of Allan, on 24th April, forty 

 to fifty evidently migrants, and a nest there with a clutch eight 

 days incubated. During autumn according to one correspondent 

 unusual numbers in Fife, and another enters eleven at the East 

 Neuk on ist September, and in the latter half of that month at 



