NOTES ON THE MOVEMENTS OF 

 BIRDS IN 1919. 



ARRANGED UNDER SPECIES. 



The Hooded Crow, Corvus comix comix. Is noticed fairly 

 plentifully in January and February. One or two in Largo Bay on 

 4th April, two at North Ronaldshay on the 20th, and three or four 

 at Balcomie (E. Fife) on 30th April. A large autumn arrival 

 occurred at Noss Head on 24th October, sixty or seventy being 

 recorded; and on 28th October the first immigrants are noted in 

 Largo Bay, thereafter the usual winter numbers are reported. 



The Carrion Crow, Corvus corofie corone. Two are recorded 

 from North Ronaldshay on 24th February and one from Pladda on 

 TSt and 2nd April. On 14th April one was seen at Kinlochewe, 

 where it is rare, a few at Pladda on 29th April, and two at North 

 Ronaldshay on 3rd May. Autumn records are sixteen counted in 

 Tayport Bay on 13th September, two at Pladda on 15th October, 

 and one at Vallay (O.H.) on 12th December. 



The Rook, Corvus frugikgus frugilegus. Northward movement 

 of this bird is reported from Foula on nth March and T2th May, 

 and from North Ronaldshay on 23rd April. On 12th October 

 a great flock numbering about a thousand was seen at Seggieden, 

 and several Rooks visited Fair Isle on 21st October. 



The Jackdaw, Corvus mouedula^ subsp. ? A Jackdaw visited 

 Pladda on 20th March, and several were seen on Fair Isle on 21st 

 October. 



The Magpie, Pica pica pica. Is recorded on 8th ]\Iay from 

 Northfield, near Duns, and on 26th May from Chirnside, Berwick- 

 shire, and our recorder notes these as the first occurrences he knows 

 of there for the last ten years. 



The Jay, Garrulus glandarius rufiterguvi. A Jay, probably 

 of this subspecies, is reported from Ninewells, Berwickshire, on 

 27th May. 



The Chough, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax. Two Choughs appeared 

 on 2nd September in the parish of Drumraelzier, Peeblesshire; one 

 was shot by mistake, but the other stayed on (i. 1920, 55). 



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