of the Island of Raasay. 495 



Yellow Wagtail. Motac'dla rail. 



A summer visitant and rare. I have found only two 

 pairs breeding ; they came at the end of April or beginning 

 of May, nidification taking place soon after their arrival. 

 The young and old birds left again between the 10th and 

 the middle of September. 



Meadow-Pipit. Anthus pratensis. 



Resident ; distributed over the whole island. 



Tree-Pipit. Anthus trivialis. 



Summer visitant, nests regularly at the edges of the woods. 

 Not common. 



Rock-Pipit. Anthus obscurus. 

 Plentiful all round the coast. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Muscicapa grisola. 



Regular visitant ; the site used for four out of five years 

 was that in which a pair of Robins had first brought off 

 their brood of young. In the summer of 1901 I knew of 

 five pairs nesting. They arrive late in May or in the 

 beginning of June, and leave again by the end of August. 



Swallow. Hirundo rustica. 



Five or six pairs inhabited the ruins of Brochil Castle 

 at the north end of the island. I constantly observed several 

 flying about the cliffs on the east side, but I never saw a 

 nest there. 



House-Martin. Chelidon nrbica. 



A few were observed in the late spring of 1896, 1897, 

 1898, and 1901, but none remained to breed. 



Sand-Martin. Cotile riparia. 



Noticed every spring in small numbers, remaining from 

 four to seven days. If there had been any suitable sand- 

 banks I thinjc that they would have bred. 



Tree-creeper. Certhia familiaris. 



Resident, and very numerous in a large fir-wood. A few 

 individuals were also to be met with wherever there was any 

 bush or natural woodland. 



