1 64 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Willow-warblers. Winter visitors were leaving us and 

 passage migrants were moving along- our shores, all in small 

 numbers. 



The third week was normal in temperature, the wind 

 chiefly between north and east ; during the first half of the 

 week there was little movement, but towards the end a 

 good deal of migration is recorded, chiefly arrivals of summer 

 visitors. With a considerable rise of temperature in the 

 fourth week and the wind between south and west, there was 

 an extensive movement; this was largely arrivals of summer 

 visitors, but there were a certain number of winter visitors 

 leaving us and some passage migration. 



May. 



The wind throughout May was variable, and the weather 

 as a whole was mild ; there was no very big movement, but a 

 steady arrival of our later summer visitors took place, this 

 naturally becoming less towards the end of the month. The 

 last of our winter visitors were leaving us, and passage 

 migrants passing along our coasts, not in a series of rushes 

 but in a steady trickle. 



June. 



The weather throughout June was cold and wet ; the 

 wind was variable, there being no prolonged spell from any 

 particular quarter. A few late passage migrants on their 

 northward journey are recorded, and last notes of adult 

 Cuckoos come at the end of the month. Birds were fiockine 

 after nesting, and returns to the shore from breeding-places 

 are recorded. 



July. 



The first half of July was cold and wet. The movements 

 noted refer chiefly to Gulls, possibly driven from their nesting- 

 places by the floods on the 7th and 8th. The normal 

 returns to the shore of our Waders are recorded. In the 



