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of the road 4 J miles from the city, at 8.30 a.m., when suddenly 

 I came upon a Rook flying low across the road with a struggling 

 object in its claws. It was being vehemently attacked by two 

 Lapwings, whose onslaught combined with my sudden appearance 

 caused the Rook to drop the object on the road just in front of my 

 wheel. I quickly dismounted, and found the creature to be a 

 young Lapwing (quills fully half-grown), which was somewhat dazed, 

 but was able to run to the side of the road after regaining its legs. 

 I caught the little bird, which soon recovered from its fright, and 

 applied an Aberdeen University migration ring to one of its legs. 

 As five or six Rooks were seated on a paling on the distant side of 

 the field from which the young bird had been lifted, I carried 

 it some distance along the road before liberating it in an adjoining 

 field, the parent Lapwings meantime being interested observers, and 

 evidently approving of the sudden and interesting turn of events. — 

 A. Rudolf Galloway. 



Migration of Fieldfares. — Living as I do in Dumfriesshire, it 

 is but seldom that I am witness of a marked migration of birds. 

 On 7th November 191 1, while standing near some thorn-bushes, 

 continuous flocks of Fieldfares (Tardus pilaris) came from the 

 south-east, perched on the bushes for a few seconds, and then went 

 off again to the north-west and out of my sight. This went on for 

 close on two hours, and I could not estimate the number of birds. 

 It should also be remembered that flocks may have been coming 

 and going before two o'clock, when I arrived at my point of vantage, 

 and after four o'clock, when I left it. — Hugh S. Gladstone, 

 Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. 



'Rock-pipit on the Clyde Estuary. — During visits to 

 Cardross in November last, and in February of the present year, I 

 noticed Rock-pipits (Anthus obscurus) present on the shore in fair 

 numbers. Though the species is mentioned in the Fauna of Clyde 

 as common on the shores of the area, the fact of its being present 

 in numbers as far up the Clyde estuary is, perhaps, worthy of 

 mention. — George Stout, Glasgow. 



White "Wagtails on Migration in East Ross. — Last autumn 

 numerous Pied Wagtails, adults and young, frequented the shore 

 and low-lying lands of the peninsula on the point of which stands 

 Tarbatness Lighthouse. I shot some of the young Wagtails, as 

 I rather hoped to procure Motacilla alba alba on migration, and 

 some of the birds seemed distinctly lighter on the back than the 

 others. Two such were obtained on the coast to the south of the 

 lighthouse on 16th September 191 1, but not from the parties of 

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