234 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



The Little Auk, Alle alle. — Single birds are recorded from 

 Fair Isle on 13th January and Rattray Head four days later. 



The first record of a Little Auk in autumn comes from Pentland 

 Skerries, where one was seen on 17th November, and three were at 

 Rattray Head two days later. On 4th and 6th December hundreds 

 are noted off Pentland Skerries, and in consequence of a great 

 easterly gale which lasted from loth to i6th December large 

 numbers were cast up on our shores. In the wreck of the Little 

 Auks in 1912, far the largest numbers are recorded from the shores 

 of the Forth ; this year, however, the Forth does not bulk so largely 

 in the records. The whole east coast participated in the movement 

 of 1 9 14, records come between 9th and i6th December from many 

 sea-board localities, from Noss Head to the Firth of Forth, of Little 

 Auks driven ashore, both alive and dead. The largest numbers 

 reported are at Noss Head and Tarbatness; at the former station 

 a "phenomenal rush" took place from 12th to 14th December, 

 at the latter, numbers arrived on the 13th, "thousands" were there 

 on the 14th December, while next day but few remained (i. 1915, 

 69). The only record from our Northern Isles during this period is 

 of one found alive about a mile inland at Deerness (Orkney) 

 on 15th December. A large proportion of the records come from 

 inland localities — on 12th December one was found alive near 

 Perth (i. 191 5, 22), and one, alive but exhausted, at Rosslynlea, 

 700 feet above sea-level and 8f miles from the nearest sea (i. 19 15, 

 23). Next day a dead Little Auk was found near Bridge of 

 Earn (i. 191 5, 22), and on the 14th one was found dead at 

 Friarton, near Perth (I.e.), and one dead, and another alive 

 at Torrance, Stirlingshire (i. 19 15, 95)- The 15th and 

 1 6th bring many records; on the former date single birds were 

 found dead at Kilmacolm (i. 1915, 95), Duncrub Park near Dunning 

 (i. 1915, 22), Arden, Loch Lomond (I.e.), Tarrance of Campsie (I.e.), 

 Liberton (i. 1915, 23), Bonnyside Farm, Loch Ardinning, near 

 Strathblane (i. 191 5, 95), and on the 14th or 15th at Glenorchard 

 (I.e.), near Stidreggs, Beattock (I.e.), and at Kinnelhead, Beattock 

 (I.e.). On the i6th Little Auks are recorded from Luss, Loch 

 Lomond (i. 1915, 22), Falkirk (I.e.), Ayr (I.e.), Toxside, near Rose- 

 bery (i. 1915, 23), Fordoun, Kincardineshire (about this time. I.e.), 

 Orchill Moor, Braco (I.e.), Dunipace, and Polmaise. After this date 

 the records become much fewer ; there are a good many notes of 

 Little Auks being found dead, but these were probably driven in at 

 the time of the gale and not picked up till a few days later. In the 

 Field oi 2nd January 1915, p. 41, two are reported as having been 

 caught in Fasnakyle Forest, Inverness-shire, 20 miles inland from 



