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These form a valuable supplement to the data for that 

 season. 



After the outbreak of the war further visits to the island, 

 which had been contemplated, ceased, on military and other 

 grounds. Thanks, however, to Wilson's assiduity, the results 

 for the year again form an important contribution to our 

 knowledge of the passage movements, for the observation of 

 which Fair Isle is so favourably situated, and which have 

 rendered it so famous. 



The number of migratory visitors which came under 

 notice during the year represented 126 species. Of these, 

 104 were observed on their spring passage to their northern 

 summer haunts, 95 in the autumn when on their return to 

 their winter retreats, while 71 were common to the migra- 

 tions of both seasons. At the close of the year 191 3 the 

 total number of species which were known to have occurred 

 at Fair Isle was 221, To these four are now to be added: 

 two of them as visitors during the year, namely, the Serin 

 Finch and the Aquatic Warbler ; and two, the Eastern 

 Short-toed Lark and Pallas's Sand-grouse, as the result of 

 recent investigations on material obtained in previous years 

 or into literature which had hitherto escaped notice. 



A number of the bird - visitors in 1914 were of special 

 interest, and will also be dealt with in these notes. The 

 rest of the data, which are very voluminous and valuable, 

 have been placed at the service of the Misses Baxter and 

 Rintoul as a contribution to their Report on Scottish 

 Oniithology for 1914. This report, I am happy to announce, 

 will appear in this magazine for July — a double number 

 being devoted to its publication. 



Northern Bullfinch, Pyrrhula pyrrhula. — The records relat- 

 ing to the spring migratory movements of this rare and irregular visitor 

 to the British Isles have seldom come under notice. Two, a male 

 and a female, appeared on 27th February, and another female was 

 seen on the following day. 



* Serin Finch, Seriniis serinus. — A female specimen of this 

 rare visitor to the British Isles appeared on 22nd May. It is 

 the second of its kind known to have visited Scotland, and the 

 most northerly record for Europe. The previous occasion on 



