loo THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Colman, Broughty Ferry ; Henry Boase, Dundee ; Sir 

 Thomas Erskine, Bt., East Fife ; E. Anderson, East Fife ; 

 N. M. Johnston, Kirkcaldy ; Francis Magee, Collessie ; 

 R. Page, Edinburgh; William Evans, Edinburgh; William 

 Eagle Clarke, Edinburgh ; Douglas G. Hunter, Edinburgh 

 and Arbroath; John Pagan, Bathgate; Wm. F. Little, 

 Crosswood Reservoir. In the Western group, to George 

 Beveridge, North Uist; Gifford Laurenson, Shillay ; Peter 

 Anderson, Tiree ; Iain Ramsay, Islay ; Sim Baigrie, Pladda; 

 M. R. Tomlinson, Loch Achray ; John Robertson, Thomas 

 Hill, H. G. Gumming, Donald Patton, William Jamieson, 



D. Macdonald, Tom Robertson, Kenned}', R. W. S. 



Wilson, all Glasgow ; James Bartholomew, Stirlingshire ; 

 T. Thornton Mackeith, Kilmacolm ; Thomas Malloch, John- 

 stone ; E. Richmond Paton, Hareshawmuir, Ayrshire; Nicol 

 Hopkins, Darvel ; John Craig, Beith. In the Southern 

 group, to A. C. Gairns, Broughton ; A. J. Rintoul, Rox- 

 burghshire ; The Earl of Home, Berwickshire ; Rev. W. 

 M'Connachie, Lauder ; T. G. Laidlaw, Duns ; Gilbert D. 

 Davidson, Melrose ; William Beggs and G. Mackie, Little 

 Ross ; J. G. Gordon, Wigtownshire and Loch Maree. 



The most interesting feature of 1919 is the extension of 

 breeding range of certain species recorded during that 

 period. Of these, the most important is the reappearance of 

 the Whooper Swan as a Scottish breeding species. Migration 

 ran a fairly normal course : the cold spring seemed to have 

 no effect on the arrivals of our summer visitors, even the 

 severe snowstorm on 27th April had little perceptible effect 

 on our bird-life. A very large movement took place in the 

 first half of May, but no very big migrations are recorded 

 in autumn, the only one of any magnitude being a weather 

 movement in mid-November caused by the very hard frost 

 and snow at that time. No new birds were added to the 

 Scottish list, but a good many uncommon visitors and birds 

 new to faunal areas are noted. The fluctuation in the 

 numbers of certain species in various localities seems to us 

 of considerable importance, so we have added a new heading 

 under which we have dealt with these notes. There are this 

 year again early records of the arrival of winter visitors. 



