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feet." A few years ago a London magazine, that claimed to publish 

 nothing but truth, had a story about a whale 150 feet long, 

 accompanied by a picture of a sperm whale, which grows to a 

 length of about 58 feet! It is recorded as a fact about a whale 

 that "it weighed 147 tons." Who weighed it? WM. TAYLOR, 

 Lhanbryde, 1901. 



Notes on Migratory Birds observed in Southern Shetland. 



Migrants have been much more numerous in the Dunrossness district 

 during the past autumn than they were last year. On ist September 

 I saw a good many White Wagtails (Motadlla alba\ but have seen 

 very few since the 4th. On the i gih a Reeve (Machetes pugnax) 

 was shot in Spiggie Marsh, and on the 25th a Spotted Crake 

 (Porzana nmruetta} was also obtained there. On the 27th many 

 Ringed Plover (^gialitis hiaticula), Sanderling (Calidris arenaria), 

 Dunlin (Tringa alpma}, and one Grey Plover (Squatarola helvetica) 

 were seen or obtained at the Pool of Virkie. A Woodcock (Scolopax 

 rusticula] was seen near Scousburgh on the same day. On the 3oth 

 a Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) and a Greenshank (Totanus 

 canescens) were obtained at Virkie, and a Pied Wagtail at Spiggie. 

 A Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) was shot at Scousburgh on the 24th 

 of October, and a Red-necked Grebe (Podicipes griseigena) on Spiggie 

 Loch on 4th November. THOMAS HENDERSON, Junr., Dunrossness, 

 Shetland. 



Waxwing in the Outer Hebrides. Mr. D. Mackenzie of 

 Stornoway writes me under date of igth November, 1901, as 

 follows : " I am sending you by parcel post a specimen of what 

 I take to be the Bohemian Waxwing (Ainpelis garriilits), which was 

 killed in a garden in town i.e. Stornoway by a boy with a catapult." 

 Mr. Mackenzie then goes on to say: "A specimen was killed 25 

 years ago or thereby, by the then gamekeeper of the Lews, at the 

 Lews Castle. I think several others may likely come to be recorded 

 as obtained in the country this season, 1901." I desire to take this 

 opportunity of asking sportsmen, ornithologists, and others whose 

 interest may be awakened by the above note, to communicate to 

 me any occurrences of interest which have come under their personal 

 observation in the Outer Hebrides, and which have not been at any 

 previous time recorded ; or any alterations in the status of species 

 since the publication of the " Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer 

 Hebrides" in 1888. Corrections of actual errors or mis-statements 

 will be equally acceptable. J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Waxwings in Scotland. The following records of Waxwings in 

 various parts of Scotland have appeared in the public press. There 

 has been a decided immigration of these birds, but though they are 

 widely scattered over the country their numbers are not consider- 

 able. 



