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REFERENCES. 



Edward R. Alston, F.L.S. 



A. Carmichael. 



Rev. Geo. Calder, B.D., Celtic Lecturer, 



Glasgow University. 

 McAlpine's Gaelic Dictionary. 

 MacBain's Gaelic Dictionary. 

 Chas. MacDonald, gamekeeper. 

 Rev. Farquhar MacRae, M.A., Glen 



Orchy, Argyll. 

 Rev. Chas. M. Robertson, Craighouse, 



Jura. 



TWO BIRDS NEW TO THE SCOTTISH FAUNA. 



I. On the Occurrence of Sykes's Blue-headed 

 Wagtail at Fair Isle. 



By W. Eagle Clarke. 



On the 1 8th of May 1910 I obtained a fine adult male 

 of this Wagtail, which is the eastern form of Blue-headed 

 Wagtail, and is known to science as Motacilla flava beema. 

 At the time it did not occur to me that it was anything more 

 than a pale-headed example of the western bird ; but on 

 working at the Fair Isle materials few weeks ago, I came to 

 the conclusion that this was without doubt a very typical 

 specimen of the bird described by Sykes, from an Indian 

 example, in 1832 {P. Z. S., 1832, p. 90) a decision which was 

 afterwards confirmed by a comparison with specimens in the 

 Tring M useum. This sub-species has occurred on one previous 

 occasion only in the British Isles, namely, in Sussex on 

 20th April 1898 ; and the Fair Isle bird marks the northern- 

 most limit to its known wandering. Sykes's Wagtail is 

 a summer visitor to Western Siberia and Central Asia, 

 and passes the winter in the plains of India from Sind 

 to Bengal, and from the Himalayas south to the Bombay 



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