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Messrs. Baikie and Heddle tell us that a few breed every season in the 

 retired parts of Hoy and Waas. Dr. Saxby describes the Cuckoo as a 

 very rare visitor to Shetland, where, however, he has obtained young 

 birds not fully feathered. 



ALCEDO ISPIDA (Linn.}. Kingfisher. 



Provinces I. -XV. 



Subprovinces 1-28, 29. 



Lat. 50-57. ''English" type, 01 Southern. 



Thinly scattered throughout England and the south of Scotland. 



Breeds regularly in Ayr, occasionally in Lanark, regularly in nearly 

 all the counties of subprovince 28, regularly in Stirling and Clackman- 

 nan, and perhaps every year in Perthshire, where it is very rare. 



It is sad to think that this beautiful ornament of our streams is fast 

 disappearing before the unceasing persecution of would-be collectors ; 

 and since its feathers have become a fashionable ornament of dress, 

 even the ladies have now to be added to the list of the enemies of the 

 Kingfisher. To salmon-fishers the sight of the living bird ought to 

 more than compensate them for the loss of the best of flies. 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA (Linn.}. Chimney-Swallow. 



Provinces I. -XVIII. 



Subprovinces 1-35, 36, 37, 38. 



Lat. 50-60 or 61. " British " type, or general, 



Throughout Great Britain, and also reaches the Scottish isles. 



Mr. John Macgillivray describes H. rustica as the only Swallow 

 found by him in the Outer Hebrides, where it did not arrive till the end 

 of June. Messrs. Baikie and Heddle say that a few pairs build annually 

 near Kirkwall ; and Dr. Saxby tells me that a nest was once taken in 

 Lerwick. 



CHELIDON URBICA (Boie]. House-Martin. 



Provinces I.-XVIIL 



Subprovinces 1-32, 34, 35, 37, 38. 



Lat. 50 3 -60 or 61. " British " type, or general. 



Builds regularly as far north as Sutherland and Caithness ; but does 

 not appear to reach the Outer Hebrides, nor has Mr. Graham found its 

 nest in the islands of Argyleshire. 



In Orkney, the House- Martin builds at Kirkwall and about the 

 Cathedral of St. Magnus (Messrs. Baikie and Heddle}. 



COTYLE RIPARIA (Boie\ Sand-Martin. 



Provinces I.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 1-32, 34, 35, 37, 38 ? 



Lat. dO-60. " British " type, or general. 



Ranges to the extreme north of the mainland ; but, like the former 



