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per Robert dyne, Signal Tower, Arbroath ; Dr. Thomas F. 

 Dewar, Arbroath ; Robert Godfrey and George B. Barbour, East 

 Neuk of Fife ; D. J. Balfour Kirke, Burntisland ; William Binnie, 

 Rev. H. N. Bonar, and William Evans, Edinburgh ; Sydney E. 

 Brock, Kirkliston ; Rev. William Serle, Duddingston W. M. Ingles, 

 North Berwick ; David G. Laidlaw, Halmyre, West Linton ; A. 

 C. Gairns, Broughton, Peeblesshire ; Leonora J. Rintoul, Largo, and 

 Evelyn V. Baxter, Gilston, Colinsburgh. In the west and south-west 

 Lady Fowler, Inverbroom ; William Begg and Robert Anderson, 

 Flannan Islands ; D. MacDonald, Mull ; Cecil H. Bisshopp, Oban ; 

 James Tomison, Skerryvore ; Robert Wilson, John Robertson, 

 K. and R. M. Buchanan, and the writer, Glasgow ; John Craig, 

 Beith ; Charles Berry, Lendalfoot ; Dr. Fullarton, Lamlash ; Rev. 

 J. D. W. Gibson, Carmichael, Lanark ; Henry Jamieson, Corsewall 

 Lighthouse ; James Bartholomew, Beattock ; Hugh S. Gladstone, 

 Thornhill. 



1150 CATHCART ROAD, GLASGOW. 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE RED-RUMPED 

 SWALLOW (HIRUNDO RUFULA} AT FAIR 

 ISLE: A NEW BIRD TO THE BRITISH 



FAUNA, 



By WM. EAGLE CLARKE. 



THE alien element contained in the British avi-fauna, already 

 phenomenally strong, is continually receiving additions. In- 

 deed, the possibilities as to what European bird of migratory 

 habit may not visit our shores seem to be almost limit- 

 less. The latest recruit to the ranks of our foreign legion 

 is an interesting one, and the scene of its advent in Britain 

 is remarkable on account of the remoteness of Fair Isle from 

 its native haunts. 



On the 2nd of June last, Fair Isle was visited by a 

 number of migratory birds en route for their more northern 

 summer haunts. These birds of passage included Swallows, 

 Bramblings, Tree Pipits, Spotted Flycatchers, Red-backed 

 Shrikes, Cuckoos, Dunlins, and others. An interesting stranger 

 was also present among these visitors, for, flying in company 

 with a party of the Common Swallow, my valued corre- 

 spondent, Mr. George Stout, of Busta, observed one with a 



