2o6 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



C. CORONE (Carrion Crow). — Young thirty-three days in nest at 

 Kirkhston on 14th April. 



C. cORNix (Hooded Crow). — Great flocks on Isle of May on 26th 

 March (p. 15). A lot at Largo on 27 th November. 



C. FRUGiLEGUS (Rook). — Courting antics at Largo, 19th February; 

 building Kirkliston 26th and laying there 14th March. Great 

 flocks on Isle of May on 26th March (p. 15). Two at the 

 Flannans on loth and 14th March and 6th April. A large 

 flock on the Isle of May on 28th October (p. 15). 



Alauda ARVENSis (Sky-Lark). — Kirkliston, sings on 21st January. 

 At Salen, N.W. Mull, on 25th March, which is late ; song heard 

 next day. Last in song, Kirkliston, 21st July. Song regained, 

 1 2th September, Kirkliston. 



Cypselus apus (Swift). — Caldwell, 29th April (i); Beith, ist May; 

 Burdiehouse (Edinburgh), ist; Killermont (Glasgow), 2nd, 

 half a dozen; Leven, same date (i); Barnton, 3rd (i); Lam- 

 lash, Carmichael (Lanark), Kirkliston, and Duddingston (many), 

 4th; Forfar, 5 th May, many, and Swordale same date. Largo, 

 ist September (i); Kirkliston (2) on 2nd; Butt of Lewis (2) 

 on 24th, Flannan Islands on 24th and 25th. 



Caprimulgus europ^us (Nightjar). — Lamlash, 4th May ; N.W. 

 Mull, 1 8th, one ( 3 )• 



Iynx torquilla (Wryneck). — Isle of May, 20th September (i); 

 26th, same place, one (p. 16). 



Dendrocopus major (Great Spotted Woodpecker). — Sandside, 

 Reay, 6th March, one ((^) shot. Bridge of Allan, 21st April, 

 one found dead ("The Field," 2nd May 1908, p. 748). 



Upupa epops (Hoopoe). — Geanies, Ross-shire, one on 9th September 

 ("The Field," 19th September 1908, p. 547). 



CucuLUS canorus (Cuckoo). — Caldwell, 27th April; Bishop Loch 

 (Glasgow), 28th ; Dairy, 29th ; Auchencairn (Arran), 30th, seen 

 and heard. Beith and Largo, ist May; Erskine and Cross- 

 wood, 2nd. Dunipace invaded ("Annals of Scot. Nat. Hist.," 

 1908, pp. 1 8 1-2). Cairnie, last week of June, one seen 

 repeatedly eating larvae of Abraxas grossulariata off gooseberry 

 bushes. Beith, young one with call-note like Meadow Pipit's, 

 but uttered more rapidly. Last heard, Mull, 3rd July. A 

 bird of the year procured on Isle of May on 20th August 

 (p. 16). 



Asio OTUS (Long-eared Owl), — On 15th March at Kirkliston, nest 

 and three eggs. Mr. Brock says it appears to leave its nesting 

 haunts there partially at least in winter. 



