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PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX (Wood Wren). 



Tay Ballinluig, May 2. Forth Dollar, April 30 ; Tillicoultry, 

 May 3; Dalmeny, May 3. Clyde Blantyre Priory, May i. 

 Earliest, April 30, Dollar. 



ACROCEPHALUS PHRAGMixis (Sedge Warbler). 



Orkney Stennis Mill Dam, nesting, May 26. Moray Bade- 

 noch, May, 29. Tweed Hallmyre, May 6. Clyde Thornliebank, 

 May 2 ; Pladda, Aug. 31, one killed. 



Earliest, May 2, Thornliebank. 



LOCUSTELLA N/EVIA (Grasshopper Warbler). 

 Clyde Beith, April 30. 



CINCLUS AQUATICUS (Dipper). 

 Outer Hebrides Barra, July 26, one. 



TROGLODYTES PARVULUS (Wren). 

 Argyll and Isles Tiree, Oct. 29, several. 



MOTACILLIN^: (Wagtails). 



Dee Peterhead, May 22, M. rail (Yellow Wagtail), a pair; 

 Sept. ii, M. lugubris (Pied Wagtail), marked rush. Tay Auchin- 

 blae, May 10-11, M. lugubris, about 100. Forth Doune, Sept. 

 26, many in the fields. Tantallon, Aug. 22, M. rail, three. 

 Isle of May, Sept. 9, M. alba (White Wagtail), a very fine adult $. 

 Outer Hebrides Barra, May 3, one; May 10, many M. alba; 

 Aug. 17, returning south. Island Ghlais L.H., Aug. 19, "Wag- 

 tails." Argyll and Isles Tiree, March 18, M. lugubris ; April 28- 

 30, May i, 4-18, M. alba, "more plentiful than I ever remember 

 seeing them"; Aug. 26, M. raii, one; Sept. 2-3, M. alba, passing 

 south. Dhuheartach, May 17, "Wagtails"; Aug. 22-24, Sept. i, in 

 rush with other birds. Skerry vore, Aug. 24, M. rail on rock : Aug. 

 3 1 -Sept. i, a rush all night along with other birds, "Wagtails"; 

 Sept. 8, M. alba (wings sent), a rush of birds. Clyde Ailsa, March 

 4, 6, 7, "common Wagtail"; Aug. 21, M. rail, one seen; Aug. 22, 

 M. melanope (Gray Wagtail), four seen ; Sept. 3, " Wagtails," " most 

 I have ever seen on the Craig." Whiting Bay, March 17, M. alba 

 Beith, April 22, M. ran. Erskine, Sept. 18, M. raii. Pladda L.H., 

 April 28, all day, "Wagtails"; Sept. 15, 17, "Wagtails." Lamlash 

 L.H., May 13, M. lugubris, a pair. 



Principal movements, April 28 to May 4, Aug. 31, Sept. i-S. 



