i8o THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Pentland Skerries on 5th July. There are many records of move- 

 ment in Southern Scotland during September; last seen Pentland 

 Skerries on 6th October, sixty to seventy on the Barrack Square, 

 and "the whole place dotted with Pied Wagtails" at Glencorse 

 on 8th October (i. igi6, 23); last seen Largo Bay on 19th November, 

 the Tweed at Melrose on 4th December, Barnbarroch (Kirkinner) 

 on 6th, and Longcroft (Oxton) on 7th December. 



The British Tree-creeper, Certhia famiHaris brittanica. — 

 On 13th October a Tree-creeper belonging to this form was accident- 

 ally killed at Galson, Outer Hebrides (i. 1916, 75). See p. 151. 



The Continental Great Titmouse, Parus major major. — It 

 will be remembered that there was an immigration of these Tits 

 into Shetland in the autumn of 19 14. Some spent the winter 

 there, and two are recorded steadily from Fair Isle up to 23rd 

 January 1915 (i. 1915, 103). See p. 150-151. 



The Blue Titmouse, Parus cxruleus, subsp. ? — A Blue Tit is 

 recorded from Little Ross on 28th October. 



The Goldcrest, Regidus reguhts. — There are very few spring 

 records of Goldcrests this year; one was at the Holy Island 

 lantern at 2 a.m. on 9th February, and two there at i a.m. on 

 nth February. Numerous at Melrose on 25th February, and 

 one was killed at the Killantringan lantern on 14th April. From 

 nth September to 18th October there are very frequent records 

 of small numbers of Goldcrests at the Killantringan and Little 

 Ross lanterns. Our excellent recorders at these stations several 

 times sent us specimens which had struck the lantern and killed 

 themselves, and in each case they belonged to the British form, 

 R. r. angloru7n. This movement, then, would appear to be a 

 southward migration of our Scottish breeding birds. Between i8th 

 and 23rd October there are records of immigrant Goldcrests, 

 doubtless the Continental R. r. reguh/s, from Fair Isle, Pentland 

 Skerries, and Swona; records from the Isle of May during this 

 period probably also belong to this race. On ist and 3rd 

 November one is reported from Swona. 



The Great Grey Shrike, Lanius excubitor excubitor.—';^m'^^ 

 birds are reported from Pitlochry at the beginning of February 

 (i. 1 91 5, 68), New Galloway on 3rd March, Cruden Bay about 

 25th March (i. 19 15, 127), Pentland Skerries on 9th October, 

 Capenoch, Dumfriesshire, on i6th November (i. 191 6, 24), and 

 Beith on 4th and i8th (another) December (2. viii. 23). 



