130 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



CYPSELUS APUS (Swift). 



Shetland Scousburgh, June 22, a good many. Lerwick, West 

 Hall, June 25, two. Orkney Sule Skerry, July 4, eleven, 8.30 

 P.M.; July n, one rested in window all night. Dee Aberdeen, 

 May 9, three; Aug. 18, one. Tay Pitlochry, April 29, one; 

 May i, one. Perth, May 6. Bell Rock, July 8, one flying round; 

 loth, four flying W. Forth Duddingston, April 29, one. 

 Morningside, May 5, three. Dean, Canty Bay, Gladhouse, May 6. 

 Kirkliston, Aug. 14. Dalmeny, Sept. 8. Outer Hebrides 

 Flannans, June 28, one. Argyll and Isles Skerry vore, May 22, 

 one, first this year ; July 8, four ; Aug. 1 2, one. Clyde Kilbirnie, 

 May 5. Solway Maxwelltown, May 10. 



Earliest, April 29, Pitlochry and Edinburgh; latest, Sept. 8, 

 Dalmeny. 



CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^EUS (Nightjar). 



Dee Aberdeen, Aug. 17, one killed. Tay Pitlochry, May 5, 

 one. Forth Tranent, seen every night for about three weeks at 

 end of August and beginning of September. Clyde Lamlash, 

 April 25. Solway Maxwelltown, May 15, first seen. Portpatrick, 

 May 20, pair, first; Sept 19, last. 



Earliest, April 25, Lamlash. 



DENDROCOPUS MAJOR (Great Spotted Woodpecker). 



Sutherland Braemore, Sept. 26, young bird. Forth E. 

 Lothian, May 15, seen at Presmennon Lake ("Annals," 1901, p. 

 181). Dalmeny, June 19. Penicuik, June 24, a young bird, still 

 showing down, captured (op. tit., pp. 235-236). Tweed Hawick, May 

 14, breeds annually in Wells and Minto woods, nest examined. 

 Selkirk, birds seen feeding young in a wood in June (op. tit., pp. 234- 

 235); August first week, an old bird, in moult, captured near West 

 Linton. 



CUCULUS CANORUS (Cuckoo). 



Shetland Lerwick, May 18, found dead at Knot. Orkney 

 Noup Head, May 30, first I have heard here. Moray Strath- 

 conan, May 2, comparatively scarce this year. Dee Aberdeen, 

 May 5, one. Tay Blair Atholl, April 29. Auchinblae, May 3, 

 heard. Pitlochry, May 4, one, none previously. Forth Tulli- 

 allan, April 27, heard. Dreghorn, April 30. Pencaitland, April 

 30. Collessie, May 2, N. Berwick and Gladhouse, May 6. Isle 

 of May, May 28, one. Tweed Broughton and Halmyre, April 28. 

 Cramilt, April 30. Ruberslaw, May i. West Ross Inverbroom, 

 May 8, first heard. Outer Hebrides Barra, May 3. Argyll and 

 Isles April 2 7, heard at Earraid. Sound of Mull, April 2 7, heard. 



