230 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



22 nd October some movement is noted at the Rhinns of Islay 

 lantern, Isle of May and Pentland Skerries ; a Snipe was killed at 

 the Whalsay Skerries lantern on 28th October, and one was on the 

 Isle of May on 31st October. During November Snipe were 

 "extraordinarily thick" on Tiree, and there are frequent notes of 

 small numbers at Pentland Skerries ; one was killed at the lantern 

 of the Rhinns of Islay on 20th November, and over a hundred 

 were seen in a marsh near Kirkinner on 28th November. Two 

 appeared at Pentland Skerries on 19th December, and ten were 

 at this station on the 22nd. 



The Jack Snipe, Limnocryptes galli7inla. — Single birds are 

 recorded from Fair Isle on 19th and 27th February and 26th March, 

 and from Corsemalzie on 12th and 14th March. Jack Snipe 

 returned early in the autumn of 1914; one was seen at Morton 

 Loch (N. Fife) on nth September, and one shot there three days 

 later. Several arrived at Fair Isle on the i6th, and Mochrum 

 Park, Penninghame, on 19th September, while single birds visited 

 Fair Isle on 21st and 22nd September, and the Rhinns of Islay 

 lantern on 25th September. From 2nd to 7th October, and again 

 from 1 6/ 1 7th October to 24th November arrivals are recorded; these 

 are chiefly noted at stations in the Northern Isles and Outer 

 Hebrides, but also from East Fife, and Little Ross and Rhinns of 

 Islay lanterns. 



The Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola. — An arrival is recorded at 

 Craignish (Argyll) on 7th January, a Woodcock at Fair Isle on 21st, 

 two at Pentland Skerries on 26th and one there on 30th January. 

 On 23rd February two appeared on Fair Isle, and some were at the 

 lantern of the Isle of May on 1 5/1 6th March. From 24th March 

 to ist April a considerable movement is noted in Orkney and 

 Shetland ; the station chiefly recording this is Fair Isle, where during 

 south-east and easterly winds, very large numbers were noted on 

 25th and 26th March, and again on 30th March, a very unusual 

 occurrence on spring migration (i. 191 5, 105). On 8th April 

 three (I.e.), and on 9th April one, were on Fair Isle, a Woodcock 

 appeared on the Bass on 15th June, and one at Fair Isle on 

 3rd July. 



The autumn immigration is first reported from Galson (O.H.) 

 on 6th October and Fair Isle next day, while from 15th October to 

 8th November a large and steady influx of Woodcock is recorded, 

 chiefly from stations in Orkney and Shetland and the Isle of May, 

 but also from West Coast stations, i.e.^ the Rhinns of Islay (L.), 



