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later records refer to passage migrants on their way to breed further 

 north. To this latter category belong, we think, the Skylarks at the 

 Muckle Flugga lantern on nth April, at Sule Skerry on 28th April, 

 the Isle of May on 27th April, 7th and 22nd May, and the Bell 

 Rock on 13th May. Three stragglers are reported from this last 

 station on 14th June. 



From 1 6th September up to 2nd November much movement 

 is recorded from our southern stations, chiefly from the Little 

 Ross and Killantringan lanterns, the largest numbers reported 

 being on ist and 2nd October at the former light. Records 

 during this period are scarce in our northern area: on 20th 

 September small parties were flying south over the sea parallel with 

 the coast at Tarbatness, a few \vere at the Muckle Flugga lantern 

 on 9/ioth October, Skylarks were leaving Swona in parties of six to 

 twelve from 8 a.m. to noon on 19th October, and about fifty were on 

 that island next day. A weather movement in snow is noted from 

 Beith and Little Ross on i6th and 17th November. The December 

 records are, some at the Little Ross lantern at 9 p.m. on the ist, 

 9th, nth, 15th, and i6th, one at the Killantringan lantern on 

 the 3rd and 14th, one at the Bell on the nth, at Lerwick on the 

 12th, and a few at the Isle of May on the 24th, 25th, and 30th, and 

 at the Rhinns of Islay lantern on the 28th December. 



The Shore-lark, Eremophila alpestris flava. — A male occurred 

 at Hoy High on 25th March, and two females at Swona on 

 16th October (i. 1916, 24). See p. 150. 



The Tree-pipit, Anthus trivialis trivialis. — The first recorded 

 for the season is at Inchlonaig, Loch Lomond, on 25th April ■ the 

 species is noted at Duns next day, at Darvel on the 27th, Strathyre 

 29th, and Melro':e on 30th April. After this arrivals are reported 

 up to loth May, by which time our Tree-pipits seem to have been 

 very generally distributed. 



From 27th to 30th July movement is noted at Kirkmichael, 

 from 8th to 28th August there are several records from Balgay near 

 Dundee, one was seen in Largo Bay on 24th August, and the last 

 for the season at Balgay on 25th September. 



The Meadow-pipit, Anthus pratensis. — On 3rd January there 

 were one or two Meadow-pipits in Largo Bay, one at Whalsay 

 Skerries on the 12th, and a flock of twenty-seven on the moor at 

 Corsemalzie on 29th January. "Quite a dozen" were at Balcomie 

 (E. Fife) on nth February, one at Fair Isle on 9th March, and five 

 at Pentland Skerries on 22nd March. From 24th March to 12th 

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