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be completely moulted in more southern latitudes early in 

 the year in all species. 



Razorbills and Guillemots arrive off the Suffolk coast in the 

 early autumn, but whether in moult or not I cannot say for 

 certain, but during the autumn here both old and young cast 

 all their flight feathers simultaneously, also the tail. I have 

 seen but two specimens of Storm Petrels taken at Light- 

 houses in autumn which showed moult, one on 29th September 

 and one on 25th November, both from the Eddystone, and 

 both were casting their flight feathers in pairs 



Conclusion. — I think one may say that the vast majority 

 o{ Passercs moult before migrating with the exception of the 

 Swallow and House Martin, but that individuals of practically 

 every species may be found in which the moult is not finished ; 

 such unfinished moult is nearly always confined to the body 

 plumage, quite exceptional in the tail, and practically never 

 in the wings. 



Barn Owl in Dumfriesshire. — -A Barn Owl has taken up its 

 abode in an old ruin at Kinnelhead, Beattock, Dumfriesshire, where 

 I saw it on 17th November last. In The Birds of Dumfriesshire 

 Mr Gladstone terms it "An uncommon local resident." — James 

 Bartholomew, Torrance, near Glasgow. 



Black-tailed God-wits in Moray Area in summer. — Mr 



Abel Chapman records in British Birds for November, that in 

 June 1914 he was informed that a pair of Godwits had established 

 themselves on a certain loch in the Moray area. He naturally 

 had some doubts as to the accuracy of this report, but on reaching 

 the place on 26th June he found a Black-tailed Godwit in full 

 summer plumage. A search was made in the boggy ground in 

 the hope of finding a second bird, but without success ; hence 

 whether they actually bred there and reared their young remains 

 unproven. 



Little Stint near Glasgow. — Nicol Hopkins records (77/6* 

 Glasgozv Naturalist, December 1915, p. 119) the occurrence of 

 this bird at Hogganfield Loch on 3rd October last. 



