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Barred Warbler in Shetland in June. — On the 14th June 

 1 9 14 I had an excellent view of a Barred Warbler {Sylvia nisoria 

 nisoria) in a garden at Lerwick. It was a fine bright day, and 

 with the aid of a Ross telescope I was able to see all the markings 

 very distinctly; it was among small trees about 5 or 6 feet high. — 

 Samuel Bruce, Lerwick. 



[This is a very interesting record of Mr Bruce's, it being the first 

 time the Barred Warbler has been recorded in Scotland on its 

 northward passage, though there are two spring records from Kent. 

 The easterly winds which prevailed from the 8th to the 14th June 

 doubtless account for the occurrence of this bird, and for that of a 

 good many other uncommon visitors which are recorded about the 

 same time.— L. J. R. and E. V. B.] 



Tengmalm's 0"wl in Shetland. — To the six specimens of 

 Tengmalm's Owl {Nyctala funerea) given in your last number as 

 having occurred in Scotland must be added a seventh, which was 

 picked up dead by a boy named Watt at the west end of Scalloway, 

 Shetland, on 14th March 1S97, and now in the collection of Mr T. 

 Ground of Birmingham, to whom I am indebted for the above data. 

 As the other three Shetland records are for 1901, 190S, and 1912, 

 the above is the first record of the bird in Shetland. The specimen 

 was a female, as were all the other records which were properly 

 sexed. — H. W. Robinson, Lancaster. 



Unrecorded King Eider from Orkney. — Although the King 

 Eider {Somateria spectabilis) has occurred a fair number of times 

 in Orkney, nearly all of these have been males. It may therefore 

 be of interest to state that Mr T. Ground of Birmingham has in his 

 collection an immature female of this species which was picked up 

 dead by some boys at Longhope on ist November 1895. — H. W. 

 Robinson, Lancaster. 



Little Auk on West Coast of Ross-shire. — Mr Bar- 

 tholomew's note in the April number of the Scottish Naturalist on 

 the " Irruption of Little Auks " suggested reference to the map in 

 the Amials of Scot. Nat. Hist., April 1895, illustrating the "Wreck 

 of the Little Auk." No record appears in this map of the 

 occurrence of this bird on the West Coast of Ross-shire, and on 

 page 102 of the same number of the Annals, it is remarked: 

 "The data for the West Coast are not very voluminous, nor are 

 they sufticiently complete to permit us to say how the birds found 

 their way there." Though during the last thirty-eight years every 

 rare bird seen in Lochbroom has been noted and reported by the 



