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noticed this season on 9th November. Another Rook with 

 some white secondaries and a good many white feathers 

 elsewhere was observed at Thornton (Fife) on 27th March, 

 and yet another with white in the wing was seen at Beith. 

 This year we only have one albino Starling recorded, viz., 

 from Scone on 3rd August : the bird was pure white and was 

 with a flock of its normally coloured brethren. On 15th 

 September a pure white Linnet was seen at St Andrews, a 

 House-sparrow with white scapulars in the left wing spent 

 the summer at Cromarty lighthouse, while birds of the same 

 species are reported from near Largo (Fife) on 2nd March 

 and 29th June, the former with pale grey head and patches 

 of the same colour on both wings, the latter with white 

 secondaries in one wing. A Reed-bunting, all mealy white 

 except the lores and ear - coverts which had some dark 

 markings, visited the Kelvin Valley on 12th November, and 

 an albino Skylark was shot near Cullen (Banffshire) in the 

 first week of October. On 25th March a Thrush, on the 

 banks of the Kelvin, had a dull white zone across the rump, 

 while a Blackbird, pure white with only one black feather, 

 which is in its wing, has frequented the Morningside district 

 of Edinburgh for two winters. " This winter it has been 

 accompanied by another Blackbird with variegated .plumage ; 

 the head and back of the latter are white, or nearly so, the 

 other parts black and white, the breast being striated." An 

 albino Ringed Plover was seen on the beach at Cullen on 

 nth and 27th October (1. 1917,47), while a greyish white 

 Lapwing nested this season in a field on the farm of Mains 

 of Kelly, Parish of Arbirlot, Forfarshire. It arrived in spring, 

 spent the summer there, and left in August. Under date of 

 24th October our correspondent at the Rhinns of Islay 

 records a Water-rail at the lantern with a white spot about 

 the size of a threepenny bit on the top of its head. A female 

 Pheasant was shot at Barnbarroch, Kirkinner, which was 

 assuming male plumage ; it had green head and neck, white 

 ring, and somewhat tawny breast. 



A Crow, " evidently a Carrion x Hoodie, with a saddle 

 of grey," was seen in a gamekeeper's larder at Lauder 

 (Berwickshire), and a pair of Crows and three young were 



