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NOTES ON THE MOVEMENTS OF 

 BIRDS IN 1914. 



ARRANGED UNDER SPECIES. 



The Raven, Corims corax corax. — We have been sent a good 

 many notes of this species from our Northern Isles and Outer 

 Hebrides, but none of these seems to point to anything more than 

 a gathering to consume some special delicacy- — such as a dead 

 Seal. The following are, however, worthy of special notice ; a 

 Raven was at Inchkeith on 2nd March, two visited Tarbatness 

 on 20th March, and two were at the former station on 4th 

 September; "offal lying about the shore has, I expect, drawn 

 these birds." 



The Hooded Crow, Corvus corfiix comix. — Single birds are 

 noted at the Flannans on 25th February and nth March, at 

 Sule Skerry on 8th and i8th March, and three Hoodies visited 

 the Bass on the last date. Single birds are again recorded 

 from Sule Skerry on 6th May, the Isle of May on nth and 14th 

 May (i. 1 914, i99)> Craignarget (Luce Bay) on 22nd, and near 

 Penninghame on 27th May. From 20th September to 20th 

 November there are many notes of small arrivals, chiefly from 

 stations in our Northern Isles and Outer Hebrides, but also from 

 the Isle of May and the mainland, the first mainland record of 

 arrival being at Colinsburgh (E. Fife) on 12th October. The 

 movement seems to have been very steady and no large numbers 

 are anywhere recorded. 



The Carrion Crow, Corvus corone corone. — K Carrion Crow 

 is noted at the Isle of May on 20th March, two on 15th April, 

 and one two days later. On 2nd April a good many were flying 

 west in ones and twos in Largo Bay, and on 19th April two were 



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