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are the same kind of Wagtails as I reported last year, and must be 

 what are called the White Wagtail. They are of a very light grey 

 colour, all except the breast and top of the head." And in later 

 schedules he refers usually to "the same kind as reported before." 

 At Flannan Isles one " Pied Wagtail " is recorded in April, and the 

 species is stated to be numerous in autumn. We prefer to enter 

 that record here. 



GRAY WAGTAIL (Motacilla melanope\ p. 57. The first specimen 

 for Barra was obtained on October 6, 1893, by Dr. M'Rury 

 ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." vol. iii. p. 142). And a second, also for 

 Barra, has been recorded. 



PIED WAGTAIL (Motacilla lugubris\ p. 5 7. It appears extremely 

 doubtful whether the earlier records of this western form of Wagtail 

 are not all, or almost all, referable to the Icelandic and European form 

 last spoken of. The first record given was upon the authority of one 

 whom all ornithologists have looked upon as very correct, viz. by 

 the late Professor MacGillivray, who speaks of it as arriving in the 

 Outer Hebrides as early as the middle of March. This was in 

 1837 ; but our accounts of it since then are very meagre indeed. 

 John MacGillivray does not include it, and other accounts may or 

 may not be correct. In recent years we have obtained a few 

 authentic identifications, and we accept Harrington's at North Rona 

 (or Mr. William's), and possibly Sir E. Milner's. What I consider 

 ought to be accepted as the first really authentic record in the Outer 

 Hebrides is that by Dr. M'Rury on January 14, 1894; and he 

 adds : " although it probably visits us on migration along with the 

 White Wagtail." Since then Mr. W. L. MacGillivray observed a 

 single bird in Barra, and gives us the particulars in the following 

 terms : " I saw the Pied Wagtail in Barra for the first time on 

 November 15, 1900. It was a single bird, and I have not seen 



one since." 



GREAT GREY SHRIKE (Lanius exctibitor\ p. 59. We now have 

 the first notice of this bird as a visitor to the Outer Hebrides. It 

 now becomes an addition to the Fauna. One was shot in April 

 1900 by Mr. W. L. MacGillivray in Barra. 



WAXWING (Ampelis garrula), p. 59. This bird now may be 

 added to the Fauna of the Outer Hebrides. Mr. D. Mackenzie of 

 Stornoway writes me under date of November 19, 1901, as 

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

 take to be the Bohemian Waxwing, which was killed in a garden in 

 town by a boy with a catapult." Mr. Mackenzie goes on to say : 

 "A specimen was killed 25 years, or more, ago, by the then keeper, 

 Munro, at The Lews Castle." This specimen is recorded in " Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist." 1902, p. 52. 



