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NOTES. 



The Continental Race of the Robin in Haddington- 

 shire. In October 191 2 there were quite a number of Robins on 

 the Haddingtonshire coast south of Dunbar. One from Skateraw, 

 on 26th October, agrees perfectly with specimens of the Continental 

 form {Erithaais rubecula rubeculd), from Fair Isle, in the Royal 

 Scottish Museum. On the same day I found a Continental Song- 

 Thrush, along with several Redwings, Fieldfares, etc., lying dead at 

 the base of Barnsness Lighthouse. I have already recorded {Scot. 

 JVat., 191 2, p. 43), a Continental Song-Thrush from this locality. 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Iceland and Greenland Falcons at Barra, Outer Hebrides. 



On the evening of the 31st of March an Iceland Falcon was 

 observed flying in a disabled state over Eoligary farm ; and in the 

 afternoon of the following day was found dead near Eoligary House. 

 It was quite warm when found, and had apparently just expired. 

 One of its legs was injured, but Mr Kirk, who has mounted the 

 bird, tells me that there were no marks of shot on the body. Mr 

 Kirk thinks that it must have been trapped, and had escaped. It is 

 the first record for the occurrence of this bird in the Outer Hebrides 

 that I am aware of. It is a male in adult plumage, and I shall 

 shortly present it to the Royal Scottish Museum. On the 21st 

 of February I saw a Greenland Falcon fly past my house; and 

 on the 24th of March my brother and I saw another bird of this 

 species feeding on a rabbit well within shot of us, but we did not 

 molest it. Wm, L. Macgillivray, Eoligary, Barra. 



Further increase of the Fulmar Petrel. Since my last 

 contribution to the history of the Dispersal of the Fulmar Petrel in 

 Scotland {Scot. JVat., May to June 1912, pp. 97-102 and 121-132), 

 I am informed of a further increase at its farthest southern extension 

 on our east coast. Mr Lewis Dunbar, who is at the present time 

 engaged at work in His Grace the Duke of Portland's museum at 

 Langwell Lodge, Caithness, writes that "The Fulmars have now 

 occupied the whole range of the Berriedale Rocks." It may prove 

 of future interest to our field-observers on the east coast to take 

 note of, and duly record, any still further advances that may be 

 made southward on that part of our Scottish shores. The next 

 most prominent range of cliffs is around Troup Head, in the 

 N.E. of Moray in the counties of Aberdeen and Banff. V&tt 



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