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Red - BREASTED Flycatcher, Muscicapa parva parva. — 

 See p. 72. 



Chiffchaff, Phylloscopiis collybita collybita.—Y\x%\. noted at 

 Corsemalzie on 15th April, Beith on 20th, and Rouken Glen on 

 26th April. On 22nd September a Ph. c. collybita occurred 

 on Fair Isle, the second record of this form for the island, and 

 one was seen and heard near Darvel on 26th September. A 

 Chiffchaff was found dead at Vallay on 3rd November, but it is 

 not stated to which subspecies it belonged. 



Willow-Warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus, — The first notes of the 

 arrival of Ph. t. trochilus come from Cochno, Dumbartonshire, on 3rd 

 April, Beith on 6th, Corsemalzie on nth, Bathgate on 13th, Bridge 

 of Weir on 19th, Hareshawmuir, Melrose and Broughton on 20th 

 April, and after this steady records of arrival come from mainland 

 stations up to 12th May. One, doubtless a passage migrant, 

 visited Fair Isle on 30th April, and Willow-Warblers on the Isle 

 of May up to 22nd May may also have been passage migrants. 

 Autumn movement had begun by 23rd July, and departures 

 continued steadily throughout August, last seen, Largo on 13th- 

 September, and Corsemalzie on 25th September. Passage migrants 

 are reported from Outskerries, Shetland, on 9th and loth September, 

 Fair Isle on 7th and i8th September, ist and 4th October, and 

 Willow-Warblers on Ailsa Craig on 5th October may have been 

 passage migrants. Some of the passage migrants may have 

 been Ph. t. eversmanni. 



Wood-Warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix sibilatrix. — Noted at 

 Rouken Glen on 2nd May, Beith and Corsemalzie on nth May, 

 Johnstone 12th May, and the Isle of May on 12th and 13th May. 

 Last seen, Kinfauns on 25th July, Balgray 21st August, Seggieden 

 28th August. 



Yellow-browed Warbler, Phylloscopus httmei prcemiuju. — 

 See p, 72. 



Grasshopper Warbler, Loctcstella nczvia juxvia. — Is reported 

 from Kilmacolm on 27th April and Luce Bay on 23rd May. 



Sedge-Warbler, Acrocephalus schcenobcsfitis. — Arrivals are 

 recorded from Fossil Marsh on xst May, Mochrum Loch on 4th, 

 Cathcart on 5th, and Isle of May (L.) on 6th May. Thereafter 

 notes come of occupation of breeding-quarters up to 22nd May. 

 One was seen in a wheat-field in Invergowrie on 17th July, one 

 was at the Pladda lantern on 28th July, and the last for the season 

 ■wa,s seen at Corsemalzie on 6th September, 



