REPORT ON SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY IN I919 loi 



The following abbreviations are used in this Report : 



1. = TJie Scottish Naturalist. 



2. = British Birds (magazine). 

 (O.H.) = Outer Hebrides. 



We are indebted to the Weekly Weather Report of the 

 Meteorological Office for the meteorological data contained 

 in this Report. 



Birds new to Faunae Areas, and Uncommon 



Visitors. 



On 3rd August a Hawfinch {Coccothraustes coccothraustes 

 coccothra7cstes), a male bird of the year, was caught in a fruit 

 net at Camiseskan, Dumbartonshire (i. 1919, 194), this being 

 the first record of the species for Clyde. From 15th October 

 to 3rd December there are a good many records of one or 

 two Northern Bullfinches {Pyrrhula pyrrJmla pyrrhula^ from 

 Lerwick (i. 1920, 28) and Fair Isle, both sexes being noted, 

 while after mid-November several were on the island of 

 Whalsay (i. 1920, 28). A male Crossbill, probably Loxia 

 curvirostra curvirosira, appeared on Fair Isle on 5th November. 

 A male and two female Ortolans {Emberiza hortulana) wished 

 Noss Head on 7th May, and on nth May one is reported 

 from Lerwick. Fair Isle records the only Blue-headed 

 Wagtail {ATotacilla flava flava) of the year, one being seen 

 there on loth and 12th May. Two Red-backed Shrikes 

 {Lanius collicrio colltirio) are reported this year, one from 

 near Dunglas House {^Berwickshire Neivs, 20th May 1919) 

 about 20th May, and the other a bird of the year obtained 

 by the shore near Portmahomack on 4th September (i. 1920, 

 54), this being the first record of the species for Moray. 

 Two Reed -warblers {Acrocephahis scirpacetis scirpaceus) are 

 reported from Lerwick, one on the i6th and the other on 

 the 26th May (i. 1920, 28), the sixth and seventh records for 

 Scotland, but only one of the previous records was in .spring. 

 The only Black Redstart {Phoenicia^us och^'urus gibraltarierisis) 

 reported in 1919 was from Noss Head on 17th October, while 

 at Lentran on 23rd August a Bee-eater {Merops apiaster) was 



