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numbers are recorded from stations in Orkney and Shetland 

 frequently from 5th to loth March and from 21st March to 28th 

 April, these being evidently Continental breeding birds on the way 

 to their nesting places ; the only other records of movement 

 during this period being from Little Ross and Tarbatness on 26th 

 March. Single birds appeared at Fair Isle on 8th and Pentland 

 Skerries on loth May, and two at the latter station on 24th May. 



Arrivals in small numbers are reported from Fair Isle, Pentland 

 Skerries, and the Isle of May between 13th and 25th October; 

 single birds visited the first-named station on 3rd and 6th 

 November, and on 17th November several flocks were seen passing 

 Little Ross, probably a weather movement, caused by the snow and 

 frost prevailing at that time. 



The Jack-DAw, Colceus vionediila. — Two are recorded from 

 Pentland Skerries on 22 nd March, and on 17th November several 

 flocks were observed at Little Ross, and parties kept arriving in 

 Largo Bay, all coming from the south-east. 



The Starling, Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris. — On 7th January 

 numbers of Starlings were at the Little Ross lantern at 11 p.m., and 

 from 13th January to 19th February there are numerous notes of 

 this species from lanterns and lighthouse stations in Southern 

 Scotland, the only records of arrivals in the northern part of our 

 country being from Pentland Skerries and Tiumpanhead on 24th 

 January and Hoy High on i6th February. From 4th March to 

 the end of April large and constant movements of Starlings are 

 reported; the periods of maximum movement seem to have been 

 from 7th to 12th March, 20th March, nth and 15th April. The 

 records come from the length and breadth of Scotland, from N. 

 Unst to Little Ross and from Skerryvore and the Outer Hebrides 

 to the Bell Rock and Pentland Skerries. Some of these were 

 doubtless our winter visitors leaving us ; others probably refer to the 

 arrival of our breeding birds and to passage migrants en route for 

 further north. The May notes are — flocks of twenty or thirty at 

 Crail on the 5th, four at the Bell at 6 p.m. next day, and one there 

 on the 13th; two at the Killantringan lantern at 3 a.m. on the nth, 

 and one at the Little Ross lantern at 12.30 a.m. on the 20th May. 

 Flocking had begun at Largo by i6th June, and is noted in many 

 localities after 12th July. On 2nd August four are noted at Sule 

 Skerry and one at the lantern there on 13th August, while on the 

 mornings of 3rd and i6th September one or two appeared at the 

 Killantringan lantern. Throughout October large arrivals are 

 noted in our Northern Isles and at the Isle of May, doubtless 



