28 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Bird Notes from Shetland. The island of Noss has enjoyed 

 a very peaceful time for the past few years. The Great Skuas 

 have established quite a respectable colony there, also the Gannets, 

 and the bird-life of the island is being very carefully protected. 

 Migration this year (19 19) has not been much in evidence. On the 

 1 6th of May a Reed Warbler appeared in my garden and was very 

 confiding ; also a Sedge Warbler, but it was very restless and 

 made observation difficult. Terns and AVheatears disappeared, 

 after a spell of bad weather, on the 25th of August, and I only 

 saw two Terns later, namely, on the 31st. I have no recollection 

 of their having disappeared so early before. The Greenland 

 Wheatear appeared on the 8th of September and on the following 

 days. The Northern Bullfinch has visited us again. I saw a 

 female on the 15th of October; on the 14th of November, a male: 

 two males on the 26th: and males on the ist and 3rd of 

 December all in our garden. Several also came under notice 

 on the island of Whalsay after the middle of November. On the 

 19th of October I saw, in the garden, a Blackbird with a 

 conspicuous white patch on its right wing, and it was still present 

 on the I St of December. John S. Tulloch, Lerwick. 



Reed- -warbler in Shetland. On 26th May 1919 a Reed- 

 warbler {Acrocephalus streperus) visited my garden in Lerwick and 

 was seen feeding among the sycamores; it was tame and confiding. 

 The wind was light S.-E., the third fine day after a fortnight of 

 westerly gales. This is the sixth record for Scotland, but only 

 once before has the species been obtained in spring. T. G. Kay, 

 Lerwick. 



Skipper or Saury in the Firth of Forth. A specimen 

 of this fish {Sco??ibresox saurus) which had been found among 

 the rocks at the Hound Point, Dalmeny Park, West Lothian, on 

 the 31st October 191 9, was brought to me on the ist of November. 



It measured 13 inches in length, 2| inches in circumference. 

 The upper jaw was f inch, and the under, i inch in length. 



During a somewhat intimate acquaintance, extending over forty 

 years, with the shores of the Forth from Cramond to South Queens- 

 ferry, I have only on two occasions previously seen specimens of 

 this fish cast ashore. The first, in my early boyhood, I have a 

 distinct recollection of seeing the shore at Long Green Bay pretty 

 thickly strewn with "queer fish," the name we gave then to the 

 Gowdnook. The next was in October 1886 when I picked up 

 a single specimen near Barnbougle Castle. Bruce Campbell, 

 10 Greenbank Place, Edinburgh. 



