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near the Blackmark Burn, Kirkcudbrightshire. It was quite near 

 me, and sat just long enough for me to observe that it was similar 

 in size to a Golden-crested Wren, of a greenish brown colour, and 

 had a most distinct light-coloured stripe over its eyes. I have since 

 examined a skin of a Yellow-browed Warbler, from the Royal 

 Scottish Museum collection, and feel certain that it was a bird of 

 this species which I saw on 15th October. James Bartholomew, 

 Glasgow. 



Fieldfares in Shetland. I beg to inform you that during 

 my twenty years' residence in Shetland I have annually seen the 

 Fieldfare, but never in anything approaching the myriads which 

 were to be seen in Dale on 1st and 2nd of November. The usual 

 Redwing outposts were present, and at a distance it is somewhat 

 difficult to say which is which, although in this case I am certain the 

 overwhelming majority of this vast flock were Fieldfares. It was 

 not a case of flushing the same lot over and over again. They 

 were everywhere. How many thousands, or millions, I cannot 

 even hazard an idea. P. MacDougall, Scalloway, Shetland. 



[Mr Laidlaw, Auskerry, Orkney, informs us that there was a 

 "tremendous rush" of Fieldfares and Redwings on the night of 

 the 25th-26th October: quite the biggest he has ever seen. Eds.] 



Late Swallow in West Lothian. When down at Cramond, 

 beside the Forth, on 30th November last, I observed a young Swallow 

 hawking for insects. It kept flying between the Dolphington Burn 

 at Dalmeny House and the cottages east of the burn, and the bird 

 seemed strong on the wing. The weather was very cold and 

 windy, and the Swallow seemed a pathetic figure. I saw it a few 

 weeks before the above date and in the same locality. Reginald 

 H. S. Page, Edinburgh. 



Sparrow Hawk and Mistle Thrush as Migrants at Barra, 

 Outer Hebrides. On the 8th November I had a near view of a 

 Sparrow Hawk {Accipiter nisus) on the Island of Barra. There had 

 been a gale for two days from the S.S.E., and movements had 

 been marked amongst other commoner migrants. 



On the 14th November a Mistle Thrush {Turdus viscivorus) 

 was seen at the same place. This bird remained on the island 

 for several days. M. Bedford, Woburn. 



[These records are of considerable interest. Not only are both 

 new to the fauna of Barra, but they are the first known instances of 

 the visits of both species as migrants in the outer Islands. The 



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