24 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Red - breasted Flycatcher {Miisdcapa parva) sitting with spread 

 tail and the white tail patches showing clearly. I identified it at 

 once, it having been my good fortune to have got this species 

 before. On the afternoon of the i6th October I saw two Shore 

 Larks {E>-e/iiophihi alpestris) feeding on a tuft of Sea-pinks. — John 

 Bain, Swona Fog-signal Station, Orkney. 



On 8th October I procured a bird in the lighthouse garden, and 

 not being very sure what it was, sent it to Mr Eagle Clarke, who 

 kindly informs me that it was a Yellow-browed ^ ?ix\A&x {^Phylloscoptts 

 superciliosus). The following day two more were seen catching 

 flies in the garden ; I had no difficulty in getting quite close to 

 them, and having had an excellent view of them, have no doubt 

 that they belonged to the same species. — John G. Thomson, 

 Pentland Skerries Lighthouse, Orkney. 



Crested Titmouse in East Rosshire. — At the meeting of 

 the British Ornithologists' Club on the loth of November, Mr 

 Ogilvie Grant exhibited a male specimen of the Crested Titmouse 

 {Fariis cristahis scotiais) one of several which he observed on iSth 

 October in company with a large travelling flock composed of 

 Coal Titmice, Long-tailed Titmice, Goldcrests and one or two 

 Tree Creepers. This flock when under observation was feeding 

 in the tops of some large Scotch fir-trees. This is the first authentic 

 instance of the occurrence of this bird north of the Moray Firth. 

 {Bull. B.O.C., xxxvi., p. 10.) 



Bee-eater and Yello^v-browed Warbler in Shetland. — A 



female Bee-eater [Merops apiaster) frequented the neighbourhood of 

 Lerwick from the 4th to nth of July last and appeared to be a 

 female. A Yellow-browed Warbler {Phylloscopus superciliosus), a 

 female, was procured at Lerwick on the i8th of October. — George 

 W. Russell, Lerwick. 



Great Grey Shrike in Dumfriesshire. — I hear that my 

 gamekeeper shot a Great Grey Shrike {Lanitis excubitor, Linnaeus) 

 at Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, on i6th November 19 15. 

 It was of the single-barred variety with black bases to the 

 secondaries, which variety was at one time regarded as a distinct 

 species {Lanius major, Pallas). So far as I am aware, the last 

 specimen of a Great Grey Shrike to be killed in Dumfriesshire 

 was shot at Newtonairds on 27th December 1906. — Hugh S. 

 Gladstone, War Office, London. 



