200 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Cambo, Boarhills, and Babbit Ness enormous flocks. Many 

 appeared on i4th at Fair Isle, remaining a day for food and 

 rest (p. 74). At Cardross (Dumbarton) on i8th November 

 in frost "swarming." At Corsewall, i8th December, large 

 flocks. 



SQUATAROLA HELVETICA (Grey Plover). A dozen reports all refer 

 to August-November. Eden, small flock in summer plumage 

 1 5th August; Dunbar, yth September, three or four all 

 apparently young (Evans) ; Troon, 23rd September (2), yth 

 October (2) ; North Berwick, 2oth September, flock ; Gladhouse 

 Reservoir (Moorfoots) i5th October (i) (Evans); Fairlie (Ayr) 

 2ist October (2), ist November (i); Largo, 4th Novem- 

 ber (i). 



VANELLUS VULGARIS (Lapwing). No important movements are 

 reported. Returned to Carmichael ist February, many, 

 apparently migrants, at Duddingston 7th, fifty-six at Delny 

 (Ross) on 2nd, and "daily increasing" now (iyth), on breeding 

 grounds at Auchinblae (Kincardine) i5th, returned to Halmyre 

 5th March, and spring call first heard in Edinburgh district on 

 1 8th. In Fife on 5th June in flocks again. On the Fair Isle 

 on 1 2th October a "very large flock" (p. 75). 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Turnstone). Largo, 28th April, flock in 

 summer plumage; i4th May (6) in Bute; N.W. Mull, 

 1 7th May (10); Aberlady, 22nd July (i) (Evans); Bute, 

 Ettrick Bay, 5th August (6), and a few in St. Ninian's Bay next 

 day ; Sule Skerry, i2th August, a flock ; Fairlie (Ayr) igth (8) ; 

 N.W. Mull, 23rd August, a score. 



SCOLOPAX RUSTICULA (Woodcock). South Bute, 2nd April, two 

 nests; Uyea, Shetland, two half -grown, on 3rd August 

 ("A.S.N.H.," 1905, p. 245); unusual number at Dunross- 

 ness early in November. First in Fair Isle, i6th October 



(P- 75)- 



GALLINAGO MAJOR (Great Snipe). One shot on River Ythan, 5th 

 September ("Zoologist," 1905, p. 466). One shot and another 

 seen at Stronsay, Orkney, i2th September (p. 54). 



G. CCELESTIS (Common Snipe). At the Flannans on 27th February, 

 about thirty, wind N.W. ; those that were at Sule Skerry all 

 winter disappeared on 28th April. First heard drumming on 

 9th March at Unst, where many appeared with a S.E. wind. 

 At the Fair Isle they were everywhere on 6th September, and 

 there were decided movements on iSth and 25th September. 



G. GALLINULA (Jack Snipe). First seen on igth September at the 

 Fair Isle, it was in all parts of the island next day. On 22nd 

 September one was shot at Dougalston, Stirling (" The Field," 

 3oth September, 1905). 



