ISO ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



S.W. At Largo on 2ist large flocks coming in over the Firth 

 from the south, 25th large flock, Bell Rock, with S.W. fresh 

 breeze and haze, several killed. 



CYPSELUS APUS (Swift). Earliest reports are from Blackford Hill 

 5th May, North Berwick 6th, Duddingston yth. There are 

 reports from seven other localities between the gth and i2th. 

 In autumn at Dunbar on gth September Mr. Evans saw several 

 passing S.E. ; i4th, May Island, two; and St. Andrews, iyth, 

 one ("Zoologist," 1905, p. 388). 



CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^US (Nightjar). One caught alive at Upper 

 Pollok (E. Renfrew) on 3rd October. 



IYNX TORQUILLA (Wryneck). Three on different dates found dead 

 early in September on the Fair Isle by Mr. Clarke. Many must 

 have escaped notice ("A.S.N.H.," 1906, p. 70). One, ex- 

 hausted, found at Sumburgh House, Shetland (I.e. 1905, p. 244), 

 on 2nd September. Another (<$ ) found dead near Stromness 

 on 4th September. Five or six at least about Dunbar between 

 25th August and gth September, one being found dead and 

 another having been killed by a train. Also one found in a 

 dying state at Elie on 3oth September ("A.S.N.H.," 1906, 

 p. 52). A curious record of the wreck of the Cuckoo's mate 

 on our shores. 



ALCEDO ISPIDA (Kingfisher). --One observed at Inverbroom on 

 1 2th September, and one at St. Andrews on 26th December. 



CORACIAS GARRULUS (Roller). One shot Auchmeden, near Aber- 

 dour, 9th September ("Zoologist," December 1905, p. 466). 



(To be continued.} 



ON SOME INVERTEBRATES FROM ST. KILDA. 

 By JAMES WATERSTON, B.D., B.Sc. 



THE present paper brings together notes dealing with groups 

 only incidentally touched upon, or which when worked did 

 not yield material sufficient for separate treatment. 



VERMES. 



CESTODA. 



Cysticercus fasrio/aris, Rnd., and Tcenia crassicolis, Rnd. In 

 "Annals," 1905, p. 201, reference was made to a cestode parasite 

 in the lobes of the liver of Mus hirtensis. The majority of the 



