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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Tringa ca?iutus (Knot). 



Orkney . . N. Ronaldshay, Aug. 12, one; Aug. 17 to 23, 



in flocks. 

 Argyll and Isles Tiree, Aug. 12; May 28, flock of seven flying 



north. 



Machetes pugnax (Ruff). 



Orkney . . N. Ronaldshay, Aug. 9, 26, Sept. 1 ; singly, or 



not more than three together. 

 Argyll and Isles Tiree, Sept. 6, 22, three. 



Shetland 

 Orkney 



Calidris arenaria (Sanderling). 



Quendale, one shot, Sept. 7 ; the only one seen. 



Wonderfully numerous in N. Ronaldshay ; first 



seen Aug. 25, flock of fourteen with Ringed 



Plover. 



Argyll and Isles Tiree, May 1 6, winter residents have left ; May 



31, several hundreds in summer plumage, 

 wind S. ; Aug. 25, first seen passing south. 



Orkney 



Moray 



Tay . 



Forth 



Tweed 



Outer Hebrides 



Totanus hypoleucus (Common Sandpiper). 



N. Ronaldshay, last seen Sept. 1. 

 Glenlivet, April 24. 

 Arbroath, April 25. 

 Edinburgh, April 18. 

 Peebles, April 24. 

 Monach I., May 1. 

 Argyll and Isles Tiree, May 16. 



First seen, Edinburgh, April 1 8 j last seen, N. 

 Ronaldshay, Sept. 1. 



Totanus ca?iescens (Greenshank). 



Orkney . . Scarce on autumn migration ; one seen Oct. 25, 



and two shot out of flock of six in same 

 month. N. Ronaldshay. 



Argyll and Isles Tiree, last seen May 7, returned Aug. 3. 



Shetland . 

 Orkney 

 Tay . 



Li?nosa (Godwit). 



Small numbers of Z. lappo?iica (Bar-tailed 

 Godwit) at Virkie Voe in October. 



A specimen of Z. lapponica in full breeding 

 plumage seen in N. Ronaldshay, June 8. 



Tay estuary, Sept. 1 9, Z. lapponica ; pair of 

 Z. agocephala (Black-tailed godwit) shot in 

 Montrose basin, Sept. 19; and one near 

 Tayport, Sept. 3. 



