REPORT ON 

 SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY IN 1919, 



INCLUDING MIGRATION. 



Introductory Remarks. 



The year under review shows many interesting features. 

 Students of bird-life can now pursue their investigations 

 untrammelled by the restrictions which were inevitable 

 during the war. Our recorders have taken advantage of 

 this improved state of affairs, and the result is the large 

 and interesting volume of notes which is summarised in this 

 Report. We fully realise how much we owe to all our 

 correspondents, and appreciate the trouble they have taken 

 to keep and send in all the records we have received from 

 them. We tender them our cordial thanks for all they have 

 done, and hope that they and we may be able to carry on in 

 the years to come as we have done in those that have gone. 



Our best thanks are due, in the Northern group of 

 localities, to John S. Tulloch, Lerwick ; G. T. Kay, Lerwick ; 

 J. C. Bowie, Bixter ; William Harry Greenaway, Foula ; 

 Duncan Mackenzie, Whalsay Skerries ; Jerome Wilson, Fair 

 Isle; Matthew Sanderson, North Ronaldshay ; John Bain, 

 Noss Head and Duncansby Head ; T. Leask, Duncansby 

 Head. In the Eastern group, to A. C. Jackson, Swordale ; 

 Dr D. J. Balfour Kirke, Ross-shire ; Robert Clyne, Cromarty ; 

 William Berry, Lentran ; Seton Gordon, various parts of 

 Highlands; Donald Guthrie, Newtonmore; Jane Gowan, 

 Cullen ; D. D. Conacher, Banff; W. Ogg, Elgin; Garden 

 Duff, Aberdeenshire ; Colonel R. Drummond Hay, Upper 

 Tay Estuary ; Sir George Kinloch, Bt., Meigle ; H. R. 



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