i 4 6 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



CYPSELUS APUS (Swift). 



Orkney N. Ronaldshay, Sept. 4, 14. Moray Forres, May 10. 

 Z> Peterhead, May 1 1 , Aug. 1 8. Tay Arbroath, May 9, Aug. 22. 

 Forth Alloa, May 9. Tweed Chirnside, May 6, Aug. 5. Outer 

 Hebrides Barra, June 16. Argyll and Isles Skerry vore, May 13. 

 Clyde Cambuslang, May 8; Crookston, Aug. 26. 



Earliest, May 6, Chirnside; latest, Sept. 14, Ronaldshay. 



Picus MAJOR (Great Spotted Woodpecker). 

 Forth Dalmeny, May 26. 



IYNX TORQUILLA (Wryneck). 



Orkney N. Ronaldshay, Sept. 3, one ? ; Sept. 6, one. Shapin- 

 shay, one <j> , Sept. 14. Tay Arbroath, May 17. 



CORACIAS GARRULA (Roller). 



Orkney Taken at Westray, June. Forth ? shot at Tyning- 

 hame, E. Lothian, Sept. 28. 



UPUPA EPOPS (Hoopoe). 

 Forth One caught on Menstrie Hill, Stirling, Nov. 16. 



CUCULUS CANORUS (Cuckoo). 



Moray Glen Feshie, May 5. Dee Peterhead, April 26. Tay 

 Tayfield, May 2. Forth Dalmeny, April 16; Aberfoyle, April 23. 

 Tweed Berwickshire, May 5. Outer Hebrides Barra, May 5. 

 Argyll and Isles Earraid, April 30 ; Tiree, May 9. Clyde Mearns, 

 April 4 (!) ; Lamlash, April 30. 

 Earliest, April 4, Mearns. 



FALCO CANDICANS (Greenland Falcon). 

 Argyll Waternish, Skye, May 26; Portree, Dec. 



ARDEID^E (Herons). 



Orkney Ardea ralloides (Squacco Heron), <$ , N. Ronaldshay, 

 Sept. 7. Outer Hebrides Nycticorax griseus (Night Heron), young 

 c, Barra, Oct. 12. 



BOTAURUS STELLARIS (Bittern). 

 Forth Barton, Stirlingshire, Feb. 18. 



