REPORT ON SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY IN 1 92 1 71 



The following abbreviations will be used in this Report: — 



1. = Scottish Naturalist. 



2. = British Birds (magazine). 

 (L.) = Lantern. 



(O.H.) = Outer Hebrides. 



Birds new to Scotland. 



The Eastern Lesser Whitethroat {Sylvia ciirruca affiiiis) 

 was procured, for the first time in Britain, on Fair Isle on 

 3rd October (i. 1921, 179). This bird breeds in Siberia, 

 wintering in India and Ceylon, and its occurrence so far to 

 the west is interesting. 



In southern Kirkcudbright, in the autumn and winter of 

 1920-21, a small skein of Snow Geese were seen on several 

 occasions; one of these was shot on the i8th of February 

 1921, on the river Dee, and proved to be a specimen of the 

 Greater Snow Goose {Chen nivalis), a native of Eastern 

 Arctic America. Though recorded in Ireland in 1886, it 

 has not hitherto been known to occur in either Scotland or 

 England (i. 192 1, 69). The first Scottish record of the 

 Yellow-legged Herring-gull {Lams argentatns cachinnans) 

 comes from Fair Isle, where one was seen on 28th September 

 by Dr Eagle Clarke and Surg.-Admiral Stenhouse, who 

 were afterwards informed by one of the inhabitants of the 

 island that the bird had been seen by him for six weeks 

 before this date (i. 192 1, 180). 



Birds new to Faunae Areas and Uncommon 

 Visitors. 



This year shows a good variety of uncommon visitors 

 as well as the very notable Waxwing immigration. A male 

 Golden Oriole was seen in Wigtownshire in June (i. 1921, 132). 

 A good many Northern Bullfinches visited us in autumn : 

 four are reported from Haddingtonshire about mid-October 

 (i. 1922, 14), single birds on Fair Isle on 4th, 14th, and i8th 

 November, a few there from. 24th November to the end 

 of the year, about the end of November one at Balcaskie 

 and several at Cambo, E. Fife, and some in Berwickshire in 



