13S ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



dead on 2nd December at Auchnasheen, where it had dashed 

 against a dining-room window. 



L. coLLURio (Red-backed Shrike). — Several in May and a few 

 young birds in September at the Fair Isle (p. 79), and an 

 abnormally coloured young one on the Isle of May on 27th 

 September (p. 16). 



MusciCAPA ATRiCAPiLLA (Pied Flycatchcr). — Added to the fauna 

 of Kirkcudbrightshire as a nesting species (A.S.N. H., 1907, 

 p. 183 and I.e. 1908, p. 118), and also to that of Ayrshire 

 (A.S.N.H., 1907, p. 247). One on the nth, and several on 

 26th September, at Isle of May (p. 17). 



M. GRisoLA (Spotted Flycatcher). — nth May, Bute; 15th, Lahill 

 (Fife); T7th, Mull (2), and it "appeared to be more numerous 

 as a nesting species this year " there. Laying at Kirkliston 

 1 2th June, and still nesting there 5th August, where it was 

 last seen i8th September. 



M. PARVA (Red-breasted Flycatcher). — On 27th September an 

 immature one observed at the Fair Isle (pp. 82, 83). One 

 at the Bell Rock on 25th October (pp. 49, 50). 



HiRUNDO RUSTicA (Swallow). — 30th March, Lendalfoot (Ayr); 

 31st, Dumfries; 5th, 6th, and 7th April, at Dairy (Ayr); 

 7 th, at Beith and Duddingston. For a fortnight thereafter 

 no records, but from 20th April till 14th May, reported from 

 sixteen localities. More numerous in Mull as a nesting species 

 than last year, and " seems to have been especially numerous 

 this year " in the Outer Hebrides, which is attributed to the 

 stormy weather blowing them out of their course (A.S.N.H., 

 1907, p. 210). On the day (5th May) they arrived Lahill 

 (Fife), they were collecting material for nesting. Second 

 brood left nest in Mull on 13th September, but young still 

 in nest at Kirkliston 21st. Left Caldwell during night of 

 25th-26th. A brood which left the nest in Mull on 27th 

 September left the locality on 6th October. After middle 

 of October, reports are 19th, Thornliebank (E. Renfrew) (2); 

 23rd, Lerwick, "rush"; 7th November, Suleskerry (i). 



Chelidon urbica (House-Martin). — 2nd April, Lendalfoot; 3rd, 

 Duddingston ; 14th, Rescobie Loch, and thereafter a break 

 till 30th, when it appears at Samuelston on Tyne and 

 Lamlash. In numbers at Fairlie (Ayr), ist October, and 

 last seen Kirkliston, 3rd. One found dead under telegraph 

 wire on i6th October, at Dairy (Ayr). Single birds at the 

 Flannans on the 3rd and 4th November. More than usually 

 abundant in spring at the Fair Isle, and observed for first time 

 in autumn (p. %t^). 



