Ii8 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



The Starling, Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris. There are a good 

 many notes of movements of Starlings from Pladda and Little Ross 

 between 22 nd February and 8th April, a great rush being reported 

 from the latter station on 25th March. Westward flights were 

 observed at Dundee on the forenoon of 6th April, and flocks in that 

 neighbourhood on 3rd and 4th May. 



On 14th July about fifteen were seen at 9 p.m. flying south at 

 Lunga Island off the west coast of Mull, many arrivals at Pladda on 

 13th and 14th October, enormous flocks near Kirkcaldy on 17th 

 October, while many were killed at the Little Ross lantern on the 

 evening of 20th October and several at the same light at 11 p.m. on 

 1 6th November. 



The Hawfinch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes coccothratistes. 

 See p. loi. 



The Greenfinch, Chloris chloris chloris. Five Greenfinches 

 appeared at Noss Head on 22nd February and a few at Fair Isle on 

 nth May. On 25th May a flock of twelve males was seen at 

 Invergowrie. In autumn, notes of increase come from Bathgate on 

 15th October, and Dundee on 19th October. A Greenfinch visited 

 Fair Isle on loth November, great flocks were at Little Ross on 

 15th November, three at Lerwick on 28th and 30th November, and 

 a flock of twelve at Pladda on 30th December. 



The British Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis britantiica. On 

 1st February nine Goldfinches were seen near Giffnock (i. 19 19, 63), 

 and a pair at Mochrum on 21st May. A flock of thirty at Corse- 

 malzie (Wigtownshire) on 24th September, seven at Darvel on 8th 

 November, a flock of thirty-two at Alticig (Mochrum) on 13th 

 November, and twenty-five in the same neighbourhood on ist 

 December. These probably all belonged to the British subspecies. 



The Siskin, Carduelis spinus. " In autumn " an enormous 

 flock numbering about two thousand birds is reported from the 

 Earn, Perthshire (i. 1920, 57), and a flock of twenty-six from 

 Derrie, Mochrum, on i6th October. A single bird was at Noss 

 Head on 13th and 23rd November. 



The Mealy Redpoll, Carduelis linaria litiaria. From 23rd 

 January to 6th March from one to three Mealy Redpolls are 

 recorded from Lerwick. On 28th September two were seen on Fair 

 Isle, three there on 5th October, and a few on 5th November. 

 Early in December one was caught at Glenorchard, and two 

 " Redpolls " were seen in the Dean Gardens, Edinburgh, on 

 29th December. 



