202 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



June, fluctuating numbers of from one to twenty are reported at 

 Pentland Skerries. 



The first note of autumn movement comes from the lantern 

 of the Isle of May, where a bird of the year struck at midnight 

 of 15th July. On 1 8th July three are noted at Hoy High, a 

 young bird on the Isle of May on the 25th and one at Pentland 

 Skerries on 28th July. Throughout August and September and 

 up to mid-October, constant movement is recorded, from the 

 Muckle Flugga rock in the north to Little Ross and the Mull 

 of Galloway in the south, from the Flannans and Rhinns of Islay 

 in the west to Rattray Head and the Isle of May in the east. 

 The height of the movement seems to have been between 29th 

 August and ist September, when very large numbers are reported 

 from the Isle of May and Mull of Galloway lanterns, the Bass, 

 Inchkeith and all about the East Neuk of Fife, while on 3rd 

 September " many " reached Sule Skerry ; otherwise the numbers 

 noted are not large. Throughout October Wheatears are noted 

 at Fair Isle and Pentland Skerries, and late records come from 

 Dundee on 17th October, the Flannans on the 19th, two at 

 Galson on the 22nd, four there on the 25th, and single birds at 

 the Flannans on 24th October, near Ladykirk on the 27th and 

 Galson on 28th October. Several were at the Isle of May and 

 one at Fair Isle on 2nd November, and two — the last for the 

 season— at Pentland Skerries on 3rd November. Some of these 

 late birds were probably the Greater Wheatear, but the vast 

 majority of the above notes refer to CEnanthe cenanfhe cetianthe ; 

 the following are the records of the larger race, CEnanthe cenanfhe 

 leucorrhoa. Greater Wheatears are first recorded from the Isle 

 of May lantern on the morning of 21st April, and from Balmuildy 

 (Clyde) on 26th April (2. vi. 92). From 28th April to 24th May 

 steady passage migration was observed; the notes come almost 

 entirely from the Isle of May, Pentland Skerries, Fair Isle and 

 Eoligarry (O.H.), but a Greater Wheatear was killed at the Little 

 Ross lantern on the morning of 3rd May. 



The first notes of return passage are from Lerwick on 30th 

 August, Hoy High on ist September, and Pentland Skerries two 

 days later. From 12th September to 8th October constant passage 

 is recorded from Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides ; 

 on 23rd September one was killed at the lantern of the Rhinns of 

 Islay, and several were on the Isle of May on 24th October. 



The Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra riibetra. — This species is first 

 noted at Dalgowan (Kirkcudbrightshire) on 15th April, a male at 



