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present incomplete or meagre ; but a pair of these ducks stayed 

 for some time on a loch even as far out to the west as Foula in 

 November 1892. In September 1892 Harvie-Brown saw four in 

 Quendale Bay, but had not observed any during a previous residence 

 there in 1891; so far fitting in with Briggs's experience on the 

 opposite side Ronaldshay in Orkney and Mr. Traill's record of 

 two in Foula. 



At the present time the summer residency and the winter 

 occupancy between say Caithness and Tiree are only joined by 

 fly-lines. But the time will, we believe, come when the residential 

 areas will dominate the winter, and. permanent residency of the species 

 will take place at all likely points between, just as the process appears 

 to be in evidence now between Sohvay, Clyde, and Forth or shall 

 we say between Ireland and Tiree and Caithness, or between Ireland 

 and Solway and Forth ? 



THE BIRDS OF THE ISLAND OF BARRA 

 ADDITIONS AND NOTES. 



By JOHN MACRURY, M.B. 



SINCE I wrote the list of the birds of the island of Barra for 

 the "Annals" (1894, pp. 140-145 and 203-214), the 

 following additional species have been observed on the 

 island : 



GARDEN WARBLER, Sylvia hortensis, Bechst. - - This is 

 another visitor I am able to add to the list of the birds 

 of our island. I secured one on the 25th November 

 1895. It was a solitary bird, and was picking up flies 

 among the bent at the sea-shore. 



LESSER REDPOLL, Linota rufesccns, Vieill. Mr. J. Peel 

 assured me he saw a Redpoll at North Bay about the 

 middle of November 1894. It was a solitary bird, and 

 was sitting quite close to him at the time, so that he got a 

 good view of it. Mr. Murdo Macgillivray saw several 

 Redpolls in the garden at Eoligary many years ago, 

 early in the winter, and secured one of them. They 

 were, he says " very like the Twite, but with a red star 

 in the forehead." He never met them on the island 

 except on that occasion. A pair of those birds a 



