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locality ; and if I can be of any assistance in giving information 

 as to literature, dissection, or any other matters, I shall be glad 

 to do so. In the present state of knowledge any notes regard- 

 ing the habits of myriapoda are of value. The literature of the 

 subject is mostly contained in scattered papers in the transactions 

 of foreign societies, but it is well worth studying. 



Castle Craig, Dolphinton. 



ON THE OCCURRENCE IN" SCOTLAND OF THE 

 BLUE -THROATED WARBLER. 



By J. A. HARVIE BROWN, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 



ON the 24th September of the present year I received a 

 box containing three birds which were captured during 

 the two previous days at the lantern of the Isle of May Light- 

 house, in the Firth of Forth, and which the reporter, Mr Joseph 

 Agnew, head lighthouse-keeper, desired to have named. One 

 of these was a Night-jar, Caprimulgus europceus, a species 

 hitherto unknown at this station ; another was an adult male 

 Redstart, Ruticilla phoenicura ; and the third is the subject of 

 this notice. 



Along with the box of birds, Mr Agnew sent me the third 

 fully filled-in schedule which I have received from him for 1881, 

 and I cannot pass on here without testifying to the intelligent 

 interest and careful attention which is manifested in these 

 schedules. At the same time, I am glad to testify in like 

 manner to the general interest created by the Abstract of our 

 Report on Migration, read at the last meeting of the British 

 Association, and by the distribution of this report to the 

 various lightship and lighthouse stations in England and Scot- 

 land. We have to thank the Trinity House for the liberal view 

 they have taken of the work, and for relieving us of much ex- 

 pense in connection with it. 



According to Mr Agnew's schedule, under date Sept. 17th, 

 the wind was light westerly with haze. The next record occurs 

 on the 2 2d, the date of the capture of this specimen and of 

 numerous arrivals of Redstarts, Mavises, Swallows, Golden 

 Plover, Ring Dotterel, Lapwings, Chaffinches, one Corn-crake, 

 one Robin, Curlews, &c. — indeed, of a "rush" of migrants. 



