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Beveridge, N. Uist; G. Laurenson, Shillay; Sim Baigrie, 
Pladda; John Robertson, R. Wilson, T. W. Wilson, T. Hill, 
G. W. M‘Allister, D. Macdonald, R. G. Ramsay, C. H. 
Marriott, W. Jamieson, C. C. Graham, Mrs C. C. Graham, 
H. G. Cumming, J. Brown, and C. A. Vynne, all of Glasgow ; 
J. Bartholomew, Stirlingshire; T. T. Mackeith, Kilmacolm ; 
T. Malloch, Johnstone; A. Cuthbertson, Yoker; E. Rich- 
mond Paton, Hareshawmuir; Nicol Hopkins, Darvel; and 
John Craig, Beith. In the Southern group, to—A. C. Gairns, 
Broughton; The Earl of Home, Coldstream; Rev. W. 
M‘Conachie, Lauder; T. G. Laidlaw, Duns; G. D. Davidson, 
Melrose; William Beggs, Little Ross; and J. G. Gordon, 
Wigtownshire, etc. ; 
In the year under review much of interest and importance 
was reported in Scottish ornithology: the increases in breed- 
ing ranges are interesting and suggestive in character; in 
addition to an attempt to nest by the Bee-eater, whose 
normal breeding range is some 1000 miles to the south, 
there occurred the nesting of the Brambling, which ordinarily 
breeds considerably to the north of these islands; there was 
also a goodly list of uncommon visitors, and the influence of 
the mild winter of 1920-21 on sea-birds was noticeable in 
that it tempted a considerable number of them to remain on 
our shores instead of leaving us. We should like to know 
how much the mild weather influenced the temperature of 
the sea and movements of fish. 
Migration ran a fairly normal course in 1920; there were 
unusually large arrivals in April and very large movements 
in the first half of May and first half of October, otherwise 
no very large numbers of birds on the move were noted. 
Local weather movements caused by frost and snow were 
conspicuous by their absence, but as a result of a gale in the 
beginning of December a most extraordinary concourse of 
Grebes was seen in Loch Ryan. 
The following abbreviations are used in this Report :— 
1. = The Scottish Naturalist. 
2. British Birds (magazine). 
(O.H.) = Outer Mebnides: 
(i>) = antern 
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