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118). A Great Shearwater {Ptiffitius gravis) was obtained in 

 Village Bay, St Kilda, on 19th June (3. viii, 76). Three 

 were seen between St Kilda and Boreray " earlier in the 

 present season" {Field, 1914, p. 104), a good many were 

 observed off North Rona on 21st June (i. 1914, 180), and 

 one was found dead in Village Bay, St Kilda, on 26th June 

 (3. viii. yG). A Red-necked Grebe {Colynibus griseigena 

 griseigend) was shot at Skene on 7th February (i. 191 5, 129), 

 and on 19th December one was fishing close inshore at 

 Morrison's Haven (W. Evans). The first record of the Little 

 Stint {Erolia mimita minuta) for the Outer Hebrides comes 

 from the Butt of Lewis on 30th September (VV, Eagle 

 Clarke). The Wood Sandpiper {Tringa glareola) is noted at 

 Fair Isle on nth and 12th June (i. 1915, 105). Green 

 Sandpipers {Tringa ochropus) were again numerous ; one was 

 seen on the Allander (W. Stirling) on 27th and 28th March 

 and in early April (2. vi. 100), and there are a number of 

 August and September records from Fair Isle, Kelvin 

 (i. 191 5, 46), Balgray Dam (i, 1915, 46), the Leader 

 (i. 1914, 237), near Longformacus (T. G. Laidlaw), and on 

 the River Ness (i. 191 5, 93). One is reported near Bar- 

 dowie, Stirlingshire, on 5th October (J. Bartholomew), and 

 two on Welling Burn, near Duns, on 23rd December 

 (T. G. Laidlaw). Two Black-tailed Godwits {Limosa limosa) 

 are recorded from Fair Isle (i. 1915, 105), and one near a 

 fresh-water loch in Caithness on 26th May (i. 191 5, 68), and 

 single birds near Inchture (Carse of Gowrie) on 14th August 

 (Professor L. R. Sutherland), Morton Loch (North Fife) on 

 5th September (H. Boase), and the Beauly Firth on 21st and 

 22nd September (i. 191 5, 93). A Little Gull {Larus 

 ininutus) was shot on the Annan, near Lockerbie, during 

 the first week of February (J. Bartholomew), and one was 

 in Largo Bay on loth June (i. 1914, 164). Finally, a Spotted 

 Crake {Porzana porsana) was procured in Fetlar, Shetland, 

 on 19th October (i. 1914, 288), the fourth record of the 

 species for Shetland. 



