116 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Greenland Falcons at Scottish Islands. The Royal 



Scottish Museum has recently received two specimens of this, the 

 most beautiful of the Falconidre, by presentation. The first of these, 

 presented by Dr Edmonston Saxby, was obtained at the Island of 

 Unst, Shetland, on 15th March, and is an adult male. The 

 second, an adult female weighing 3^ lbs., was captured in a rabbit 

 trap on the Island of Colonsay on 31st March, and was secured for 

 the Museum through the good offices of Prof. Donald Mackinnon. 

 Wm. Eagle Clarke, Edinburgh. 



Hoopoe in Fife. On 25th September last a Hoopoe was shot 

 near Kirkcaldy by a keeper on Raith Estate. He saw the bird fly 

 past his window and alight on a rubbish heap, near an old coal-pit, 

 where it was secured without difficulty. It proved to be a male, 

 and has been preserved. D. J. Balfour Kirkk, Burntisland. 



Black-throated and Red-throated Divers in the Firth 

 of Forth. I beg to record a great rush of Black- and Red-throated 

 Divers, which I observed on 13th April at Inchkeith. I never in 

 all my experience have seen such numbers. I can safely say that 

 there were from 150 to 200 passing with the ebb-tide, all busy 

 feeding on sprats. I had an excellent view of them from the north 

 end of the island. I would like to know if they have been noticed 

 at any other place in the Firth of Forth. The birds were in 

 various stages of plumage ; some very dark and others very beautiful. 

 On 15th April I saw my first Swallow of the season, but we have 

 had no Warblers yet, though several Wheat ears, Pied Wagtails, 

 and Goldcrests have visited us. William Begg, Inchkeith 

 Lighthouse. 



Cornicularia vigilax (Bl.) in Scotland (Forth). In 191 2 

 I took this rare spider in two localities in the Forth area, viz., at 

 Wharry Glen, near Bridge of Allan, where a female was shaken out 

 of ground moss on 17th February, and the Isle of May, where a 

 male was got on 5th July. They have been identified for me 

 respectively by the Rev. J. E. Hull and Dr A. R. Jackson. I am 

 not aware of any previous record of this species for Scotland. A 

 number of other small spiders, including Minyriolus pusillus, 

 Troxochnis exilis {Tapinopa pal lots in previous Forth records), 

 Walckena'era nudipalpis, etc., occurred along with the Bridge of 

 Allan specimen. William Evans. 



Tetramorium ceespitum (L.) an Ant new to Scotland 

 in the Forth Area. When returning from the Isle of May on 

 21st March this year (1913) I landed for a couple of hours on the 

 Bass Rock, and devoted a considerable part of the time to searching 



