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Plover with eggs on the loth April ; a Golden Plover at 

 Hareshawmuir was sitting on three eggs on the igth ; and 

 a Greenfinch, at Gilston, Fife, had four eggs on the 21s!:. 

 On 15th April a Heron's nest with two eggs and a Magpie's 

 nest with four eggs were found in Airdrie, E. Fife, " the 

 nests jostling each other in the same tree " — neither species 

 is common as a breeding bird in this locality. On the next 

 day a Woodcock's nest with three young, three days old, 

 was found at Loch Rescobie, Forfar. With May comes 

 the usual rush of records of nests of many species ; space 

 does not allow of giving more than a reference to a few 

 of the most outstanding of these. A Wagtail, believed 

 to be a Blue-headed Wagtail, was seen at Kinfauns on the 

 17th feeding three young; the nest was " under a ledge of 

 rock on the Dell garden." 



In Droughty Ferry on 8th May a Wren's nest was found 

 in a garden ; it was lined but had no eggs in it. It was 

 visited several times in May and June, but was always 

 empty; on 7th July, however, it was found to contain eggs, 

 which hatched out on 15th July (2. xv. 209). 



From Hyskeir comes an interesting series of notes on 

 Arctic Terns; they settled on the rock on 31st May, had 

 eggs on 9th June, young on 3rd July, and these were on 

 the wing on 24th July. In June, we have records of young 

 of practically all our nesting species, and from the number 

 and variety mentioned we know it to have been a favourable 

 season for breeding birds. On i8th June a Whitethroat 

 and Common Sandpiper hatched out at Hareshawmuir, the 

 former after twelve days' incubation, the latter after twenty- 

 two. From the same place came the record of a Lapwing 

 of which the incubation period was twenty-three days. 

 Thereafter nothing of special note is recorded until we 

 come to late nests, of which there are an unusual number 

 this year, due, no doubt, to the mildness of the autumn. 

 Four young Greenfinches were found in a nest at Hareshaw- 

 muir on 25th August, on which day also a Wood-pigeon 

 there laid an egg in a new nest. On 30th September another 

 Wood-pigeon at the same place had young in the nest. 

 Blackbirds at Rutherglen and Helensburgh had nests and 



