MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1895 139 



ARGYLL AND INNER HEBRIDES. 



Tiree Peter Anderson. 



Skerryvore L.H. John Nicol and William Charleson. 



CLYDE. 



Various localities Glasgow J. Robertson, J. Torrance, J. Paterson, 

 district J. Lang, H. B. Watt, and R. Wilson. 



Arran William Evans. 



Ailsa Craig L.H. William A. Tulloch. 



Pladda L.H. R. A. M'Harrie. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



The exceptionally severe weather of the early months 

 of 1895 told severely on many of our soft-billed resident 

 species. Thrushes, Dippers, and Wrens appear to have been 

 the chief sufferers, and reports as to the scarcity or almost 

 total extinction of the Song Thrush come from several 

 widely separated localities. 



The hard winter was followed by a warm and early 

 spring, and the average dates of arrival of our summer 

 migrants show no departure from the normal. 



That there are no spring or autumn bird-movements of 

 any importance to chronicle, is in great measure due to the 

 scanty data available, especially from coast-stations. 



The usual northern migration of the Whimbrel and White 

 Wagtail (M, alba} was noticed at Tiree ; and movements of 

 Turdidce at Pladda on March 10. A rush of birds mostly 

 Larks and Wheatears occurred at Skerryvore on Sep- 

 tember 17-19, with W.S.W. gales ; and smaller move- 

 ments of Turdida and other birds at Pladda on November 

 19-21. 



The principal, and perhaps the only, ornithological 

 occurrence of note during 1895 was the great irruption of 

 Little Auks (Mergulus alle) that followed the northerly gales 

 of January and February. This visitation has been so fully 

 described by Mr. Eagle Clarke in the pages of the " Annals " 

 (April 1895, p. 97) that it has not been thought necessary 

 to do more than mention the fact in this Report. 



