NOTES 21 
The bird-succession, named in the same order, includes 
the Skylark, Meadow-pipit, Wheatear, and, in less distinct 
sequence, such species as the Sheldrake, Stockdove, Lapwing, 
Golden Plover, Dunlin, Eider-duck, Stonechat, and locally 
Yellow Wagtail ; while the landward bush-growth is populated 
by the Whitethroat, Greenfinch, and other invaders from 
the bordering associations. 
(To be continued.) 
Blackcap Warbler at Kilmacolm.—On Tuesday morning, 
30th November 1920, as the boys from the Sailors’ Orphan Homes 
were leaving for school, they picked up an adult male Blackcap 
Warbler, which they handed to the schoolmaster. It had struck 
the telephone wire and was alive when picked up. To the local 
schoolmaster (Mr W. L. Walker) we are indebted for the record of 
this exceptionally late date for a bird which is very little known in 
the parish. I sent the bird to Dr Eagle Clarke, who reminds me that 
it has occurred in Dumfriesshire up to 29th November, so our 
Renfrewshire record is one day later.—T. THORNTON MackEITH, 
Kilmacolm. 
The Palmated Newt in Argylishire.—In the beginning of 
June last (1920) I received from Mr J. B. Henderson, lighthouse- 
keeper, three adult examples of the Palmated Newt (Molge palmaza) 
from Sanda, off the south end of Kintyre. Twenty years ago, 
namely in July r9o1, I had one sent to me from Oban by Mr R. 
Godfrey. I mention these occurrences seeing there is no allusion 
to the species in Harvie-Brown’s Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll, or in 
Mr John Paterson’s report of a visit to Sanda in Transactions of the 
Natural History Soc. of Glasgow, vol. vy. (n.s.), 1898.—WILLIAM 
Evans, Edinburgh. 
Swallow Fly, Stenopteryx hirundinis, L., in the Morn- 
ingside suburb of Hdinburgh.—Among the debris beneath the 
lining of a House-martin’s nest which Mr E. B. Bailey kindly 
secured for me last September from a window-corner in his house 
at Pentland Terrace, Edinburgh, I found two puparia of this curious 
parasitic fly. Doubtless S. Airundinis occurs commonly enough 
in Martins’ nests in this district, but I am not aware that it has 
been recorded from any part of the Forth Area since 1809, when 
Stewart included it in his list of insects found in the neighbourhood 
of Edinburgh, published in Vol. I. of the Wernerian Society's =. 
Memotrs.—W1LL1AM Evans, Edinburgh. Pes uA / 
