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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Shetland 



Orkney 



Strigidce (Owls). 



Short-eared Owl (A. accipitrinus) seen flying at 

 Sumburgh Head in September. 



Snowy Owl {Nyctcea scandiacd) seen flying south 

 over Loch Spiggie, Oct. 28. 



N. Ronaldshay. Long-eared Owl (Asia otus), 

 male, shot Nov. 24. 



A. accipitrinus, Dec. 2, 3 ; one killed, one seen. 



Nyctcza scandiaca, seen Nov. 2. 



Scops owl (Scops giu), one taken at the Light- 

 house, June 2 : the first record of this owl for 

 Orkney. 



Orkney 



Circus cyaneus (Hen Harrier). 



Hen Harrier, a male seen July 1 6 ; generally 

 seen in September. 



Shetland 

 Orkney 



Ardea cinerea (Common Heron). 



Visits Dunrossness in small parties in autumn. 



First seen Sept. 1. 

 N. Ronaldshay, in small numbers every year, 



generally appearing early in August. 



Shetland 



Orkney 



Anatidce. 



Wild Geese. 



Dunrossness, Oct. 10, one Greylag on Loch 



Spiggie. 

 Bernicle Geese {B. leucopsis) on migration, in 

 numbers Oct. 6 and succeeding few days ; 

 wind N.E. 

 N. Ronaldshay, Oct. 7, three Greylag, N.W. 

 gale; Oct. 10, "Wild Geese"; July 4, 

 two Gray Geese. Brent Geese (B. bre?itd) 

 fairly plentiful during winter of 1891-92. 

 Pink-footed Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus), 

 Newport, Fife, April 29. Flock of ten, 

 Sept. 19 ; " earliest date I have known here." 

 Outer Hebrides Barra Head, Oct. 17, about 150 Bernicle 



Geese flying south ; wind N. I. Ghlas, May 



3, flock of 29 "Wild Geese," flying north. 



Argyll and Isles Tiree, "Wild Geese" left April 30, in flock of 



150, going north, and returned Oct. 7, three 



Tay 



weeks earlier than usual 



strong 



N. wind. 



