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saw two at Row (Gareloch) three days later (24th). The 

 Rev. H. N. Bonar, Saltoun, who sends an interesting narrative 

 of his experience of this species in the early part of the year 

 in nine or ten parishes, was fortunate to see a " flock of about 

 eighty feeding in a newly sown field near Humbie House, 

 males in splendid i)lumage" on the ist of May. First 

 autumn appearance, 26th September, Isle of May. Generally 

 reported tliroughout October and November, but nowhere in 

 remarkable numbers. In Mull, observed feeding on seeds 

 of Spircea Uhna?'ia^ Polygonum Persicaria, and Centaurea 

 fiigra. 



LiNOTA CANNABiNA (Linnet). — Nest and five eggs, Bute, 14th May, 

 and nest with eggs, Lake of Monteith, i8th. A few in 

 autumn till 21st October, on Fair Isle (p. 76). 



L. LiNARiA (Mealy Redpoll). — At Inverbroom, 22nd February (2); 

 Lerwick on 12th and 28th April (i) ; at the Flannans, 4th July 

 (i, and 2 later same day) ; at Sule Skerry, 30th October (i). 



L. ROSTRATA (Greater Redpoll). — A small party at the Fair Isle 

 on 2 1 St September (p. 76). 



L. RUFESCENS (Lesser Redpoll). — In Mull on nth April, in 

 song, the first seen for four or five months. A newly acquired 

 habit of eating sown seed described (A.S.N.H., 1907, 

 p. 112). 



L. FLAViROSTRis (Twite). — At Edinburgh on migration, 27th March; 

 flock on Sule Skerry, 3rd May; in Bute, 13th to i6th May, 

 four nests, three with five eggs, one with three ; five nests, 

 two with six eggs on 5th June in the Outer Hebrides and 

 four in stunted Sycamores on 27th there (A.S.N. H., 1907, 

 p. 210). Flock at Lerwick, 29th September, and numbers 

 on 9th October. 



Pyrrhula europ^a (Bullfinch). — At Swordale, East Ross, our 

 correspondent found a nest with pale pink eggs spotted with 

 brown and observed "a pair building and the female did all 

 the work, the male merely looking on." In Mull, 3 ist October, 

 four at seeds of Scabiosa succisa, and on 7th December four 

 at seeds of Setiecio Jacobcea. 



P. erythrina (Scarlet Grosbeak). — One procured on the Isle of 

 May on 25th September, the second Scottish occurrence (p. 18). 



Emberiza melanocephala (Black-headed Bunting). — One at the 

 Fair Isle on 21st September (p. 76). 



E. PUSiLLA (Little Bunting). — One on 14th April and a number 

 between loth October and 5 th November, at the Fair Isle 

 (p. 76). 



