ON THE AVIFAUNA OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES 141 



LESSER WHITETHROAT (Sylvia curruca\ p. 50. --This has 

 hitherto been bracketed for the reasons given in " Fauna of the 

 Outer Hebrides," but the brackets now come to be removed. 

 Mr. MacGillivray records a " Lesser Whitethroat," shot in October 

 1899, and presented to the Edinburgh Museum, obtained in Barra 

 ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1899, p. 109). 



BLACKCAP (Sylvia atricapilla), p. 50. Dr. M'Rury, again, by 

 his indefatigable observations in Barra, is able to give us a record 

 of the Blackcap there the first he had seen anywhere in the Outer 

 Hebrides a single female bird, on October 13, 1893 ("Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist." 1894, pp. 56 and 142). Another is referred to 

 in "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1893, p. 153, as identified by Mr. Edgar 

 at Barra on October 13 "the first seen here" 



GARDEN WARBLER (Sylvia hortensis], p. 51. An addition to 

 the Birds of the Outer Hebrides, and the brackets may be removed. 

 One is recorded by Dr. M'Rury ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1896, 

 p. 22). It was got on November 25, 1895, in Barra. 



BARRED WARBLER (Sylvia nisorid), p. 51. This species is an 

 addition to the fauna of the Outer Hebrides, the first in Barra, and 

 the third for Scotland. All the Scottish examples have been obtained 

 on the west coasts or islands. It was recorded by Mr. W. A. Mac- 

 Gillivray and verified by Mr. Eagle Clarke ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 

 1901, p. 115). 



GOLDEN -CRESTED WREN (Regulus cristatus], p. 51. First re- 

 corded from Barra by Dr. M'Rury, April 8, 1897 ; but of course 

 these birds have often occurred at the lighthouses, and appear in 

 the schedules throughout the range, and as far west as Flannan 

 Isles. 



CHIFFCHAFF (Phylloscoptis ritfiis), p. 52. This has hitherto been 

 bracketed owing to reasons given in " Fauna of the Outer Hebrides," 

 but the brackets may now be removed. " Chiffchaffs were shot 

 in Barra in October 1889, and Mr. W. L. MacGillivray gave one 

 of a pair to the Edinburgh Museum. 



WILLOW WREN (Phylloscopus trochilus}, p. 53. The advance of 

 the species to the southward in the Outer Hebrides is shown by 

 Dr. M'Rury 's notes. The MacGillivrays had a pair nesting in their 

 garden at Eoligary for several years up to about 1894, but they did 

 not return in that year. However, numbers were seen in April and 

 May, 1893 and 1894. Considerable planting had been undertaken 

 in Barra, and this increase has no doubt been greatly due to that 

 fact, and to the greater attractions thereby afforded to such wood- 

 loving birds, which pass either during autumn, or on their return 

 journeys along the lines of flight, or are both autumn and spring 

 migrants. 



