346 The Scottish Naturalist. 



and vent whitish sand-colour ; breast and lower parts a 

 shade darker ; shoulders and wing coverts darkish sand- 

 colour, the latter edged with cinnamon-brown; quill-feathers 

 pale yellowish-brown, inner webs very pale, with the tips 

 darker yellowish-brown ; rump and upper half of outer tail- 

 feathers pure white ; central tail-feathers and band across 

 the tail dark yellowish-brown, edged and tipped with 

 lightish cinnamon-brown. The bird from which this de- 

 scription is taken, was in its old plumage, not having com- 

 menced the autumn moult, as was shown by the feathers 

 being a good deal worn. 



* 8 Desert Chat Saxicola deserti A bird of this species 



was shot about half a mile east of Arbroath by Mr. Alex. 

 Marshal], birdstuffer in that place, as it was flying inland 

 across the road, leading along the top of the cliffs, on the 

 28th of December, 1887, at about 2-30 p.m., there being a 

 fresh gale from the south at the time. There had been 

 severe frost previously. This specimen was exhibited 

 before the Perthshire Society of Natural Science on the 

 9th of February, and early in March 1888 before the Zoo- 

 logical Society in London by P. Lutley Sclater, Esq., 

 Secretary of the Society. This is the second appearance 

 of this bird in Scotland, one having been shot in the 

 previous year in the Forth District at Alloa. There is no 

 instance as yet, of its having been noticed in any other 

 part of Britain. 



47 Great Grey Shrike Specimens of this bird were obtained 

 in the autumn of last year, 1887, both in Perthshire and 

 Forfarshire, at Aberfeldy and Arbroath, communicated by 

 Mr. P. D. Malloch, Perth, and A. Nicol Simpson, Esq. ,. 

 Arbroath. 



50. Spotted Flycatcher. A pale variety of this species, of 

 a uniform creamy white, an adult male, was shot in the 

 . middle of August 1887, at Rannoch Lodge by the gardener, 

 Mr. Clark, and was forwarded to the Perthshire Museum. 

 It may be here mentioned that probably the non-report of 

 the Spotted Flycatcher from the upper parts of Aberdeen,, 

 as stated in the Ornithological Report of 1885, is merely 

 an omission, the bird having been noticed by myself ia 



