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Fam. HiPPOBOSdDiE. 



* Melophagus ovinus, L., - - Feb. —March. Carntyne; 



Riddrie. 



Note. — Additional species occurring in ''Clyde" will be found in 

 Mr. J. R. Malloch's contributions ("Diptera in Dumbartonshire) 

 to the Ent. Mo. Mag., viz., vol. xvii. (second series), 1906, pp. 41, 

 233, 257, and 276; and vol. xviii., pp. 43 and 86. 



Erratum. 

 Ante, vol. viii. (N.S.), part I. — 

 Page 19, line 1, for "tarsalis, Schum.," read "discimanus, Lw." 



Autumn and Winter Bird-Life of the Fairlie Shore. 



By Robert W. S. Wilson. 



[Read Slst March, 1908.] 



Unlike some other parts of Ayrshire, notably Lendalfoot and 

 Beith, the Fairlie district has never been fortunate in possessing 

 a resident historian of its avifauna, and consequently but little 

 has been published on this subject. 



The recently published "List of the Birds of Ayrshire - ' by 

 the Glenfield Ramblers' Club, Kilmarnock, does not contain any 

 information regarding this district, but remarks, when speaking 

 of Mr. Charles Berry's observations at Lendalfoot, that "It is 

 much to be regretted that a similar series of notes is not 

 available from some locality near the other end of the Ayrshire 

 seaboard, where the different nature of the shore is more attrac- 

 tive to certain types of birds." 



The following notes refer principally to the period from 1901. 

 and are the result of the many visits I have paid to this district 



