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from Shapinshay, Orkney (p. 5 i ), while on the same date one 



was seen at Kelvinside, Glasgow, by Mr. Wm. Wordie, who 



knows it in its Swiss haunts. This is a new species to 

 "Clyde." 



CYANECULA SUECICA (Bluethroat). One at Fair Isle on 25th 

 September (p. 21) is a new species for the Northern Isles. 



ERITHACUS RUBECULA (Redbreast). A nest in Fife which was found 

 on 5th April, and contained then three eggs, had added 

 another in regular course. Nothing further happened for some 

 time, but on 2ist April it was found to contain eight eggs. 

 Immense numbers are reported from Dunrossness with a S.E. 

 gale between i2th and i6th April, a movement which is also 

 recorded from Lerwick, "large lot, chiefly males." 



SYLVIA CINEREA (Whitethroat). In Bute one was noted on ist 

 May, and the next records are Halrnyre and Corsewall, 4th ; 

 Kirkliston, 5th; Greenbank, Edinburgh, yth (Evans). In 

 autumn 9th September, Crail ; 25111, N.W. Mull. 



S. CURRUCA (Lesser Whitethroat). Reported from the Flannans on 

 2ist May. Mr. Wm. Evans saw one on gth September at 

 Dunbar. 



S. ATRICAPILLA (Blackcap). Heard and seen near Edinburgh 

 on 5th May (Evans). This was one of the best represented 

 species at the Fair Isle in the "rush" between 23rd and 

 25th September (p. 20). One was shot at Inverbroom in 

 November (p. 51), and another observed on yth idem at Sule 

 Skerry. 



S. HORTENSIS (Garden Warbler). First reported from Dreghorn, 

 near Edinburgh, on 3oth April. On 2nd June two nests with 

 one egg each in E. Renfrew (ten days later than the first nest 

 in this locality in 1904). Small numbers observed at Fair Isle 

 5th to 26th September (p. 20). 



REGULUS CRISTATUS (Golden-crested Wren). Sings at Kirkliston, 

 yth February. After a S.E. gale on i2th April many were 

 seen at Dunrossness, several being found dead. On i6th and 

 1 8th April a few at Unst. From Camis Eskan, Dumbarton- 

 shire, Mr. Keith Buchanan reports a nest ready for eggs 

 apparently, on 8th April. On 4th May it contained seven eggs 

 four or five days incubated, so that laying did not begin till 

 two weeks after completion of nest. Messrs. Barr and Craig, 

 Beith, who visited Lanfine in the Irvine Valley (Ayr) in June, 

 found three nests, and were much struck with the difference in 

 type from that they are familiar with at Beith. The Lanfine 

 eggs were whiter with a few dark red spots, recalling those of 



