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gone, as none have been seen since 29th October, but I saw one 

 female to-day, ist November. — Robert Clyne, The Lighthouse, 

 Butt of Lewis. 



Black Redstart in the Tay Area. — On 22nd October at 

 Balcomie, a httle to the north of the East Neuk of Fife, we 

 procured a fine specimen of a Black Redstart {^Riiticilla titys). 

 It was a male in beautiful plumage. We believe this to be the first 

 record of this species in the Tay area. — Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul 

 and Evelyn V. Baxter, Largo, Fife. 



Coal Titmouse on the Bass Rock. — Titmice so seldom appear 

 in the Migration Reports that the occurrence of two Coal Tits on 

 the Bass Rock on 28th September last is perhaps worth putting 

 on record. A leg and a wing of one of them were sent to me for 

 identification by Mr. J. M. Campbell, the lighthouse keeper. Had 

 the whole bird been preserved, it might have been possible to say 

 whether it belonged to the continental or the British race. — 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Gadwall in Fifeshire. — A young male Gadwall {Chaulelasimis 

 streperus) in transition plumage was among the ducks shot at 

 evening flight on Morton, near Tayport, on the night of the 14th 

 November 1908. Our bag for two nights of that week (one gun) 

 consisted of ten ducks, and included, besides the Gadwall, Mallard, 

 Widgeon, Teal, Shoveller, Golden Eye and Scaup Duck, all killed 

 after dusk, and when species could no longer be distinguished. 

 We are accustomed to meet with ducks of many kinds in the 

 course of a season, but this Gadwall is the first that has come 

 under my notice in the eighteen years or so that I have been 

 intimately acquainted with the moors and marshes near the mouth 

 of the Tay, though I have heard a report that one was killed in 

 Forfarshire at an earlier date in 1907, The bird was alone when 

 shot, and so far no other has been seen. The " flighting " bag 

 for that week also included a Pink-footed Goose having a curious 

 malformation of the base of the bill, the result, I have no doubt, 

 of some previous injury. This Goose and the Gadwall have both 

 been sent to the Royal Scottish Museum for preservation. — 

 William Berry, Tayfield, Newport, Fife. 



Long-tailed Duck far Inland. — An adult female Long-tailed 

 Duck {Harelda glacialis) was shot on the Spey 40 miles from the 

 sea in October last. As this is a far inland occurrence, it may be 

 considered worthy of a record in the "Annals." — J. R. Pelham 

 Burn, Roy Bridge. 



Golden-eyes in the Forth Area in Summer. — On i6th May, 

 and again on 5th June 1908, I saw a flock of eighteen Golden-eyes 

 on Loch Leven — six of them males in adult plumage; and on loth 

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