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obtained on 3rd October. Another visitor of very uncommon 

 occurrence was the Yellow -browed Warbler (Phylloscopus super 

 ciliosus), and of this no less than six examples were seen between 

 1 9th and 25th September. Of the Arctic Bluethroat (Cyamcula 

 suecicd) about a dozen came under notice, and adults and 

 young birds were secured. A young Ortolan (Emberiza Jiortulana} 

 on 1 8th September completes the list of rarities. In all seventy- 

 three species of migratory birds came under our notice during the 

 five weeks spent on the island. Specimens of all the species 

 named have been presented by us to the collections of the Royal 

 Scottish Museum. W. EAGLE CLARKE and NORMAN B. KINNEAR, 

 Edinburgh. 



Bird Notes from Tiree. When flapper-shooting at the begin- 

 ing of August, the dog captured a young Water Rail (Rallus 

 aquaticus) which was still unable to fly, so that the bird breeds in 

 Tiree. Towards the latter end of July I saw three young Thrushes 

 (Turdits musicus) about some whins. I had noticed the old birds 

 now and then all summer about a few low laurel bushes in a garden. 

 PETER ANDERSON, Tiree. 



Tree -Sparrow in Bute. On 8th April, 1906, I saw three 

 Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) at a farm in South Bute, and 

 in the beginning of June I ascertained that the species was breed- 

 ing in low, ivy-grown cliffs in the neighbourhood. The nests 

 were either in the ivy or in crevices of the rock. The House- 

 Sparrow was nesting in the same situations, and on a visit paid in 

 the middle of July, two nests which had been occupied by House- 

 Sparrows early in June contained eggs of the Tree - Sparrow. 

 Altogether, I believe, not less than twenty pairs were nesting on the 

 ground under observation. The Tree-Sparrow has not previously 

 been recorded for the Island of Bute, and according to the list of 

 the " Birds of Clyde," compiled by Mr. John Paterson for the 

 British Association Handbook (1901), there are only two former 

 records of the species nesting in Clyde, at Ardrossan, and at Ann- 

 bank, Ayrshire. JOHN ROBERTSON, Glasgow. 



Greenland Falcon in Barra. On the 26th of March 1906, my 

 brother Mr. Murdo Macgillivray shot a fine specimen of the Green- 

 land Falcon (Falco candicans] in Barra. This makes the fourth 

 specimen of this species obtained in Barra during the last twenty 

 years. W. L. MACGILLIVRAY, Eoligary, Barra. 



Nesting- of the Grey-Lag- Goose, etc., in the Tay Area.- 



The opening of the season for wild-fowl at the beginning of 

 August resulted in several interesting species being secured in the 

 "Tay" area. In the first place, attention may be directed to the 

 fact that the Grey-lag Goose (Anser anser) nested in the district ; a 

 young bird, one of three, about half-grown, and unable to fly, having 



