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Green Sandpiper and Pork-tailed Petrel in Moray Area. 



On ist November 1912, a Green Sandpiper was shot by the 

 tide on the Cromarty Firth. A <$ Fork-tailed Petrel was obtained on 

 the Bcauly Firth on nth November, by a punt gunner. This 

 constitutes a second record for Moray, the first occurrence of the 

 species having been reported by James brown of Forres, in the 

 Annals of Scottish Natural History for 1890, p. 53. Thanks to 

 Mr \Y. Berry of Lentran, I am able to give the above interesting 

 data. Annie C. Jackson, Swordale. 



Bar-tailed Godwit in Ayrshire. -It may interest the readers 

 of the Scottish Naturalist to learn that on the 17th December 1912 

 a line male specimen of the Bar-tailed Godwit was shot at Maidens, 

 Ayrshire. The bird has the characteristic dull brick red plumage 

 on the neck, breast, abdomen, and under tail - coverts. Gib. 

 Graham, Girvan. 



Roseate Terns in Moray Area. It may be of interest to 

 record that in the end of June 191 2, I observed some Roseate 

 Terns amongst Common and Arctic Terns in a certain locality in 

 Moray area. I believe this to be the only record of the occurrence 

 of this species in the area since the year 1887, when Mr O. A. J. 

 Lee discovered a small colony in Elginshire. Annie C. Jackson, 

 Swordale. 



Moths from Pair Isle. The following moths, captured at 

 the lantern of the south lighthouse on Fair Isle in 1912, have been 

 kindly given to me by Mr Eagle Clarke: Tripluciia proiuiba, L., 

 three specimens, one being of the dark purple-brown form, and two 

 of the pale yellowish-grey variety ; Hadena Jc/iti/ia, Esp., one 

 worn example; Plusia gamma, L., live specimens. Though the 

 three species are already on the Shetland list, their occurrence 

 on Fair Isle is nevertheless worth placing on record. William 

 Evans, Edinburgh. 



Calamia lutosa, Hub., in the Forth Area. As the Large 

 Wainscot (Calamia lutosa) is not a common moth in Scotland, 

 and there does not appear to be any record of it from the Forth 

 area, the fact that I possess a specimen which was caught at the 

 Bass Rock lighthouse by one of the lightkeepers in 1908, is perhaps 

 of sufficient interest to warrant this note. In the course of the past 

 four or five years I have examined a large number of moths taken 

 at the lanterns of the Firth of Forth lighthouses at the Isle of 



