NOTES. 287 



them as Slavonian Grebes {Podicipes auritus). The occur- 

 rence is worthy of note, since this species has only once 

 before been recorded in Montgomeryshire (c/. Fauna N. 

 Wales, p. 245). Mr. Hampson adds that on the 8th there 

 was a party of Goosanders on the lake. 



I have since learned that about the same date another 

 Slavonian Grebe was obtained about two miles from Clun, in 

 south-west Shropshire, another on the Severn just above 

 Shrewsbury on February 13th, and a third near Church 

 Stretton on the 15th. Although this species has frequently 

 been recorded in the county, not one appears to have been 

 met with until now since November, 1894, when a specimen 

 was shot on the Severn, some four miles north-west of 

 Shrewsbury. H. E. Forrest. 



FULMARS IN ORKNEY. 



With reference to my note on the dates of arrival of Fulmars 

 {Fnlmarus glacialis) in Orkney [supra, p. 228), I omitted to 

 state that in 1908 there were Fulmars on Hoy Head at the 

 new year — indeed a pair in my collection \\evQ shot there on 

 January 2nd in that year. H. W. Robinson. 



[In the Vertebrate Fauna of the Shetlands (p. 210), Messrs. 

 A. H. Evans and Buckley state that, to judge from Mr. F 

 Traill's observations, Fulmars " are quite common out at sea in 

 winter, and betake themselves to the land as soon as January 

 commences, nearly all the migrants having arrived by 

 February." I am much indebted to Mr. W. Evans for drawing 

 my attention to an error in the date of the establishment of 

 the Hoy Head colony, which I referred to on pages 142 and 

 199 as 1891. I much regret to say that this is a mistake, which 

 arose from a misquotation in the articles on " Additions " 

 by Dr. N. F. Ticehurst andmyself (Vol. II., p. 374). Wequoted 

 from Mr. Harvie-Brown's Fauna of the North-ivest Highlands 

 (1904), where we are told, on page 359, that since the Orkney 

 volume was issued (i.e. since 1891) Ho}^ Head had been 

 occupied, but no exact date is given, nor perhaps obtainable, 

 for the founding of this colony. — H.F.W.] 



Northern Willow- Warbler in Haddington. — A male 

 Phylloscopus trochilus eversmanni was taken at the Bass 

 Rock Lighthouse on April 29th, 1909 (W. Evans, Scot. Nat., 

 1912, p. 44). 



Hawfinch Breeding in W^est Lothian.^A young 

 Coccothraustes vulgaris about twelve daj's old, was found on 

 June 21st, 1911, in Dalmeny Park. The nest from which it 

 had presumably fallen was found in the following December 

 (B. Campbell, Scot. Nat., 1912, p. 43). 



