29* THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



winter dress — the stage in which the bird is most likely, in 

 one or other sex, to occur in our islands. 



Head, mantle, and scapulars dark drab, with paler 

 edgings to the feathers, which are very faint on the head 

 and most pronounced on the scapulars. Ear coverts brown ; 

 rump white. 



Primary and secondary wing feathers and their coverts 

 blackish ; the former and their coverts outwardly margined 

 and tipped with whitish buff; secondaries and rest of coverts 

 with greyish buff. 



The two centre feathers of the tail are black except the 

 basal third, which is white ; rest of the tail white with a 

 broad black terminal band, broadest on the outer feathers ; 

 all the outer margins and tips edged with whitish buff. 

 Throat and fore-neck greyish buff, the dark basal portion 

 of the buff-edged feathers being in evidence and giving a 

 dusky appearance. Breast dull sandy buff. Abdomen, 

 flanks, and under tail coverts light buff. 



Under surface of the primaries dark silvery grey, with 

 pale buff inner margins; coverts dusky, edged with white and 

 most pronounced on the smaller series ; axillaries dull black. 



Wing, 92-5 mm. (3-62 ins.). Third and fourth quills 

 longest and equal, the second and fifth equal, and the third, 

 . fourth, and fifth emarginated towards the tips. Bill and legs 

 black. 



Acronycta aceris in Aberdeenshire— a Correction. - In 



the August number of the Ento7nologist (p. 191) G. E. Hartley 

 corrects his record of this species in the same journal (p. 22). The 

 moth, on emergence, proved to be A. leporina. Since the occur- 

 rence of A. aceris was stated at the time to be an addition to the 

 Aberdeenshire list, and as such was quoted in our issue of March 

 (p. 70) it is important to note the above correction. 



Hoopoe in Ayrshire. — A female Hoopoe was obtained at 

 Monkton, Ayrshire, on 30th September last. I understand this 

 bird has not been recorded for Ayrshire for thirty-four years, when a 

 specimen was got near Kilmarnock. — Charles Kh-ik, Glasgow. 



