150 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



LIMOSA LAPPONICA (Bar-tailed Godwit). 



Forth Aberlady Bay, July 30, flock of 143 adult birds, many in 

 summer plumage; first young bird seen, Aug. 21. Outer Hebrides 

 Barra, flock of eleven " Godwits " remained all summer. Argyll and 

 Isles Tiree, Sept. 26. Clyde Turnberry, June 5 ; Fairlie, Sept. 4. 



NUMENIUS ARQUATA (Curlew). 



Moray Glen Tromie, Badenoch, to Sept. 19. Dee Rattray 

 Head, in flocks, March 5, April 24, Sept. 29; Peterhead, on migration, 

 Sept. 4. Argyll and Isles Skerryvore May 17, Aug. 15-31, Sept. i. 



NUMENIUS PH^EOPUS (Whimbrel). 



Orkney N. Ronaldshay, Aug. 3, one ; Aug. 7, 8, 17, in small 

 flocks. Sutherland Brawl Castle, Aug. 3. Forth Aberlady Bay, 

 July 31, three. Argyll and Isles Tiree, April 24. Clyde Ailsa, 

 .March 7 (large flock), April 8 ; Turnberry, June 5 ; Cardross, Aug. 3. 



STERNIN.E (Terns). 



Orkney Graemsay, May iS-Sept. 4. S. macrura (Arctic 

 Tern). Moray Loch Morlich, May 1 1, one S. fluviatilis (Common 

 Tern). Dee Peterhead, May 4 -Sept. 14, 6 1 . fluriatilis. Tay 

 Tentsmuir, April 27. Forth S. fluviatilis, Inch Mickery, May 6; 

 Aberdour, Sept. 28; S. macrura, Aberlady, Oct. 7, 9 ; . dougalli 

 (Roseate Tern), Aberlady, July 30. Outer Hebrides Barra, May 

 13, S. macrura. Argyll and Isles Tiree, May 2 -Aug. 25; one 

 young bird, Oct. 7, S. macrura ; Skerryvore, May 25, Aug. 30. 

 Clyde Pladda, Sept. 13. S. minuta, Turnberry, Aug. 30. 



LARIN.E (Gulls). 



Forth Xema sabinii (Sabine's Gull), one adult, Aberlady Bay, 

 Aug. 24; Larus mi nut us (Little Gull), Belhaven, Dunbar, Sept. n. 

 Argyll and Isles L. leucopterns (Iceland Gull), Dhuheartach, Oct. 

 25. Solway L. minutus, Solway Firth, Sept. 16, Oct. 9. 



STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS (Buffon's Skua). 

 Oiiter Hebrides Barra, May i 2, first record. 



MERGULUS ALLE (Little Auk). 

 Shetland Yell, Dec. i. Dee Aberdeen, Oct. 22. 



