REPORT ON 

 SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY IN 1916, 



INCLUDING MIGRATION. 



Introductory Remarks. 



Thanks to our excellent staff of keen and competent 

 recorders, we are able to keep up the Reports on Scottish 

 Ornithology which have now been published for a consider- 

 able number of years, and present that of 191 6. Work of 

 this kind is carried on with ever-increasing difficulty in these 

 troublous times, but the quality of the notes sent in is quite 

 up to the usual high standard, and if the amount received 

 is not as large as in former years, this is in no way the fault 

 of the recorders themselves but is entirely due to the 

 exigencies of the situation. Death has, alas, robbed us of 

 several of our most faithful correspondents. We have to 

 mourn the loss of that veteran ornithologist Dr Harvie- 

 Brown, and other good friends we have lost in 1916 are 

 J. B. Hough, New Galloway, George Stout, Fair Isle 

 (killed in action), William Tulloch, Ardnamurchan, John 

 Campbell, Bass Rock, and John G. Thomson, Pentland 

 Skerries, all of whom sent us regular notes, and whose 

 help and kindly interest 'we shall much miss. More, too, 

 of our correspondents have joined His Majesty's forces 

 and are therefore unable to help us, at any rate to the 

 same extent as of yore. But in spite of these losses we 

 have been sent a splendid series of notes, for which we 

 heartily thank our old friends, as well as those new 

 recorders whom we are glad to welcome to our midst. We 



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