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Davidson, Melrose ; the late J. B. Hough, New Galloway ; 

 William Begg and George Mackie, Little Ross ; J. G. 

 Gordon, Corsemalzie ; and Charles Braid, Mull of Galloway. 



For the first time for many years no new bird has been 

 added to the Scottish list, but several interesting and 

 uncommon visitors have been recorded. The most out- 

 standing of these are the Pied Wheatear, of which the 

 second Scottish example was obtained on Swona, and the 

 Siberian Chiffchaff taken at the Little Ross lantern, the first 

 record for S.W. Scotland. On the whole, migration followed 

 a very normal course; there were no prolonged departures 

 from the normal in meteorological conditions, and consequently 

 no great influxes of uncommon visitors or immense rushes 

 of our passage migrants took place, as is the case in those 

 springs and autumns in which certain abnormal weather 

 conditions prevail. 



With a desire to save space we have not given the 

 uncommon visitors twice, but have merely inserted in 

 the list a reference to the page where they will be found in 

 detail. The following abbreviations will be used in this 

 Report : 



1. = The Scottish Naturalist. 



2. = The Glasgoiv Naturalist. 



3. = British Birds (magazine). 

 (L.) = Lantern. 



(O.H.) = Outer Hebrides. 



We are again indebted to the Weather Report of the 

 Meteorological Office for meteorological data ; these are, 

 however, very scanty, and therefore we have been unable to 

 do more than give a very brief summary of the weather 

 conditions in the account of migration movements under 

 months. 



Birds New to Faunal Areas, and Uncommon 



Visitors. 



The list of Uncommon Visitors identified in 1916 is 

 much shorter than usual ; for obvious reasons it was im- 

 possible that the number of rare visitors detected should be 



