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Inverness : the first received by them for ten years. Mr. George 

 E. Paterson, Ravenslea, New Kilpatrick, identified a bird seen on 

 the roadside hedge, eating haws, at Mugdoch on 5th February as 

 a Waxwing. On the 5th of February a female was captured alive 

 at Wick, as we are informed, by Air. Lewis Dunbar. Mr. Osgood 

 H. Mackenzie of Inverewe, West Ross, writes under date 29th 

 February : " We have had a Bohemian Waxwing here lately. I 

 have been on the look out for rare birds here for over forty years, 

 but have never before seen a Chatterer." Dr. Stewart of Chirnside 

 informs us that Mr. Aitchison of Duns has lately received for pre- 

 servation two specimens, one of which was obtained at Roxburgh. 



Mr. George Sim sends the following records. — On the 2nd of 

 January an immature specimen was shot near New Pitsligo. On 7th 

 January, one, a female, flew into a house in the parish of Tough, 

 and was caught there : its stomach contained some seeds. Another 

 female was killed near Rhynie, on 25th February, and its stomach 

 contained juniper berries. One was picked up dead on the shore 

 near Pennan. Lastly, an immature male was obtained in the Parish 

 of Arbuthnot in Kincardineshire, about the 15th of March. 



Air. Fred Box killed a good specimen of this rare visitant, in the 

 neighbourhood of Tongue, on the nth January last ; and on the 

 27th of the same month Mr. G. R. Lawson obtained another in his 

 garden at Golspie. 



Sparrow and Mouse. — On 3rd February 1893, while walking 

 along the road at the foot of the Calton Hill, opposite the Gaol, I 

 saw a Sparrow swoop down several times at a Mouse, which was 

 running along a bare part of the hill, a little way up from the wall. 

 The Mouse eventually escaped into a hole. — William Loudon, 

 Edinburgh. 



Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus) in Shetland. — By a 

 clerical error this species was described in my " Autumn Notes " 

 from Shetland, in the last number of the "Annals," pp. 14 and 15, 

 as a Reed Bunting (Ember iza schcenidus). — J. A. Harvie-Brown, 

 Dunipace. 



Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) in Tiree. — The only new bird I 

 have seen this winter was a Jackdaw. It was among a flock of 

 Rooks, and is the first Jackdaw I have seen in Tiree. — Peter 

 Anderson, Tiree. 



Magpie (Pica rusticd) in Orkney. — Towards the end of August 

 last the boatman on Loch Kirbister informed us that he had one 

 morning seen a curious black and white bird hopping about the 

 roof of the cottage, which from his description was obviously a 

 Magpie. The Magpie appears to be very rarely seen in Orkney. — 

 A. Noel Skelton, Edinburgh. 



