196 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



REPORT ON SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY 



FOR 1905. 



By JOHN PATERSON. 

 ( Continue d from p. 150.) 



UPUPA EPOPS (Hoopoe). After a S.E. gale on the i3th April one 

 (c?) was found dead at Dunrossness, Shetland. In the end 

 of October or early November one shot at Onich, Argyll 

 (p. 52), and one at Ballachulish on nth November ("The 

 Field," iith November 1905). 



CUCULUS CANORUS (Cuckoo). Earliest report Lendalfoot (Ayr) 

 1 2th April, and from twelve localities between 28th April and 

 ist May. Last heard 28th June, Mull. One found dead 

 23rd August, Arbroath. A few seen in September on the 

 Fair Isle (p. 71). 



STRIX FLAMMEA (White or Barn Owl). Young in nest, Edinburgh 

 district, 8th August. 



Asio oxus (Long-eared Owl). --nth February, Unst (i); i5th 

 September, Stemster (i); 3rd December, Lerwick (i); and 

 26th (i). 



A. ACCIPITRINUS (Short-eared Owl). On Unst, loth April (i); 

 Balcomie (Fife), 8th September (i); Dunrossness, i3th Nov- 

 ember (i); Dunnet, 6th December (i). 



SYRNIUM ALUCO (Tawny Owl). Berriedale by Thurso (i) on i3th 

 April; Dunrossness, 1 6th November (i). 



NYCTEA SCANDIACA (Snowy Owl). One on Unst on 4th April. 



SCOPS GIU (Scops -Owl). One captured on the lighthouse rock, 

 Unst, Shetland, about 2oth August. 



PERNIS APIVORUS (Honey-Buzzard). At North Berwick, 26th June, 

 and another (or the same?) near Dunbar, shot 26th July 

 (Evans). 



FALCO CANDICANS (Greenland Falcon). One shot while attacking 

 fowls at Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire, in March. 



F. SUBBUTEO (Hobby). One reported from North Berwick on 2oth 

 June (W. M. Ingles). 



F. ^ESALON (Merlin). On Unst, i4th January (i); Flannans, i5th 

 April (i); Sule Skerry 26th (i); Flannans one killed, 3rd 

 September, while destroying Wheatears on the lantern ; 

 another same day and place; Sule Skerry, iith (i); Fair Isle, 

 nth and 1 2th, one, probably the same on each date ; Flannans, 



