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were seen on 20th July roosting in a small willow bush in 

 reeds, in water in Mochrum Loch, Wigtownshire, at 9.30 P.M., 

 and from Cullen under date of 13th September comes a note 

 of Blue Tits feeding on the fruit of flowering currant of 

 which they seemed very fond ; three were seen on the bush 

 at the same time they pull off the berry and hold it in 

 their feet against a branch while they peck at it. Sparrow- 

 hawks near Duns, Berwickshire, are taking toll of the Wood- 

 pigeons there, Mr Laidlaw having seen the remains of more 

 than a dozen killed by them (i. 1919, 61). A Peregrine was 

 mobbed by Terns on approaching the shore at the Dornoch 

 Firth on 2nd August, and another was seen at Portma- 

 homack (E. Ross) "in full cry after a Redshank" on i8th 

 October. On i6th July, a flock of about four hundred 

 Lapwing were seen bathing in Loch Elrig (Wigtownshire) 

 after a long shower; a Woodcock on 15th July flew past 

 our correspondent at Corsemalzie, when he was standing in 

 a wood, so close as to brush his coat pocket. Common Terns 

 and Black-headed Gulls were seen in Wigtownshire, shaking 

 themselves while on the wing, to dry their feathers after a 

 heavy shower ; the sound could be heard quite clearly. This 

 is evidently a common habit with these birds ; a Common 

 Tern which was diving for Perch fry at the Castle Loch, 

 Mochrum, was also seen to shake itself dry on the wing 

 after having been submerged. In an article in the Game- 

 keeper for February, Blackgame are reported in numbers in 

 Midlothian, and a party of fourteen were disturbed in a strip, 

 where they had been feeding on fir, scratching away the snow 

 to get at the food underneath. 



Migration 

 summary of movements. 



January. 



In the first nine days of January we have no record ot 

 any migration. From 9th to 21st a good deal of weather 

 movement took place in frost and snow; the species chiefly 

 affected were Tiirdincu, Starlings, Skylarks, Snow-buntings, 



