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RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER (Muscicapa parva)^ p. 59. This is 

 an addition to the Fauna of the Outer Hebrides. Mr. William 

 Tulloch records one which he caught and kept alive for two days 

 amongst flowers in the windows of the lighthouse on the Monach 

 Isles. He saw it first on October 22, 1893, at 10.30 A.M., but did 

 not catch it till a few days after. It was finally caught in a store 

 on the island. The specimen was sent to Mr. Eagle Clarke for 

 identification, along with schedules, a day or two after ("Ann. Scot. 

 Nat. Hist." 1894, p. 2). 



SWALLOW (Hirundo rustica], p. 60. This is recorded as a nest- 

 ing species for the first time, in Barra, in June 1896 by Dr. 

 M'Rury ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1897, p. 75)." 



SISKIN (Chrysomitris spinus], p. 61. An addition to the Fauna 

 of the Outer Hebrides. Two were seen in Dr. M'Rury ! s garden 

 on October 29, 1897, and for the space of a month about a dozen 

 remained, and were often seen by Dr. M'Rury and Mr. W. L. 

 MacGillivray, in various parts of the island of Barra. None have, 

 however, been seen since. The species comes, however, to be added 

 to the Fauna of the Outer Hebrides. 



GOLDFINCH (Cardnells e/egans), p. 61. Mr. Finlayson, Min- 

 gulay, once observed an individual of this species in that island, and 

 informed Dr. M'Rury of the fact ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1896, 

 p. 23), but Mr. W. L. MacGillivray adds the negative evidence that 

 he never saw one in Barra ! On the other hand, Sir J. Campbell 

 Orde records one seen by his son Arthur (now Sir Arthur), in 

 North Uist on May 21, 1893, and there was probably another in 

 its company ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1893, p. 592); and Sir 

 Arthur, in a later communication, includes one as also having been 

 seen in the same place in 1892. 



COMMON SPARROW (Passer domesticus), p. 61. Three males and 

 two females arrived in Barra and took possession of a roosting-place, 

 (driving out the Tree Sparrows), and occupied it. This was on 

 November 24, 1893. I n March 1894 another female House 

 Sparrow arrived, but none remained, all leaving together, early in 

 May. This seems an interesting note ; and no doubt they found the 

 summer conditions not quite to their satisfaction in some particular 

 direction. Mr. M'Elfrish writes as follows : " I have frequently 

 seen the common House Sparrow in the village of Castlebay, and at 

 Tarbert, Harris, but now r here else in the islands." 



TREE SPARROW (Passer inontanus], p. 62. This interesting 

 species is reported as " now very numerous in the island of Barra, 

 especially at Eoligary, where it has been at least forty or fifty years. 

 ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1892, p. 195). (The allied species appears 

 to be of only very recent advent). The late Mr. Agnew, lighthouse- 

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