NOTES ON THE MOVEMENTS OF 

 BIRDS IN 1918. 



ARRANGED UNDER SPECIES. 



The Raven, Corvtis corax corax. Fifteen were seen together 

 on 2oth April and seven on lytli August, both at North Unst. 



The Hooded Crow, Corvus comix comix. On 6th February 

 a dozen were seen at CuUen, nine at Noss Head on 2nd March, 

 five or six at Durris on 22nd April, three at the Isle of May on 

 28th April, and one there on 7th May. Records of the autumn 

 movement are very scant, arrivals being noted at North Unst on 

 17th August and North Ronaldshay on 21st December only. 



The Carrion Crow, Corvus corone corotie. On 17th January 

 a Carrion Crow visited the Isle of May, two or three were seen at 

 Cullen on 6th February, and small parties about Dundee from early 

 in March till mid-May. Small numbers appeared on the Isle of 

 May during April, and one was seen there on 14th May. Arrivals 

 are noted about Dundee on 3rd and from Pladda on 21st 

 November. 



The Rook, Corvus frugilegus frugikgus. Six appeared on 

 Foula on 7th February, and from 17th March till the second 

 week of April increases were noted at a Dundee rookery, while 

 a flock of fifty visited Hamnafeldt Hill, Foula, on 29th March. 



The Jackdaw, Corvus ??ioneduIa.^^\xds of this species, but of 

 which race is uncertain, visited Foula on 12th February, the Isle of 

 May on 14th March and ist April, and Lerwick on 3rd and 26th 

 December, single birds in each instance. 



The Starling, Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris. From 14th to 19th 

 January a weather movement caused by the hard frost which pre- 

 vailed at that time is recorded from Kyleakin and Pladda, and from 

 Lerwick on 21st January we hear that many were frozen to death. 

 Notes of movement come from our southern stations between 2nd 



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