REPORT ON 

 SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY IN 1917, 



INCLUDING MIGRATION. 



Introductory Remarks. 



The thoughts and activities of all are centred on winninc 

 the War, and everyone is working so hard for this end that 

 no one has much time or energy to spare for the peaceful 

 pursuit of ornithology. In spite of the ever-increasing 

 difficulties with which they have had to contend, our recorders 

 have again sent us a most excellent series of observations for 

 the year 1917. We realise how much keenness and trouble 

 have gone to the compilation of these notes, and we would 

 like to express, once more, our appreciation of, and grateful 

 thanks for, all the help given us in carrying on the Report 

 under the present complex conditions. 



Our best thanks are due, in the Northern group of 

 localities, to William Crowe and Claud McEachern, North 

 Unst ; The Lightkeepers, Whalsay Skerries ; John S. Tulloch, 

 Lerwick; William Harry Greenaway, Foula ; Jerome Wilson, 

 Fair Isle ; The Lightkeepers, Sule Skerry ; John Bain, Swona ; 

 John Gilmour, Hellyar Holm. In the Eastern group, to 

 Annie C. Jackson, East Ross ; Robert Clyne, Cromarty 

 Lighthouse; Jane Gowan, Cullen ; F. W. Cattanach, Banff; 

 Alex. Macdonald, Durris ; D. Hamilton, Braemar ; Douglas 

 Hunter, Arbroath and Edinburgh ; G. Carmichael, Pit- 

 lochry ; E. J. Fergusson, Perthshire ; J. G. Gordon, Perth ; 

 Professor L. R. Sutherland, Dundee ; Henry Boase, Dundee ; 

 George Cuthill, Alyth ; W. Berry, Tayfield ; Frank Magee, 



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