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Hobby, Falco subbuteo subbuteo.— 'Siee. p. 73. 



Merlin, Falco columbarius (zsalon. — From loth September to 

 ist October movement is noted at Fair Isle, Isle of May, and 

 Hyskeir. 



Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus tiimunculus. — Movement noted as 

 in the last species. 



Rough-legged Buzzard, Buteo lagopus lagopus. — A single bird 

 is reported from Vallay on 12th April, and one of a pair was trapped 

 at Knockando, Morayshire, on 4th May. 



Common Buzzard, Buteo buteo buteo.— One at Hareshawmuir 

 in March, one at Tayfield, N. Fife, on loth June, " been going 

 about for a year past," one near Springfield, Fife, on 7th August, 

 and one at Gillespie, Wigtownshire, on 3rd October. 



Sparrow-Hawk, Accipiter ?iisus nisus. — A female on Fair Isle 

 on 23rd September, the first recorded there in autumn. 



Osprey, Pandion halicetus halicetus. — See p. 73. 



Bittern, Botauris stellaris stellaris. — See p. 73. 



Whooper Swan, Cygnus cygnus. — On 7th March four Whoopers 

 arrived on Fossil Marsh and left again on 5th April flying due north. 

 Eleven were seen at Vallay (O.H.) on 6th April and three there on 

 28th April. On 28th October eight were crossing Barnbarroch, 

 Wigtownshire, going south, and "Swans" were seen in E. Fife and 

 at Fair Isle. 



Bewick's Swan, Cygnus bcwickii beivickii. — By 14th March 

 only three were left on Tiree of the number which winter there. 

 On 15th October four arrived at Kilmacolm, one was seen at 

 Anstruther, Fife, in early November, twenty-four at Lochwinnoch, 

 Renfrewshire, on 30th November, and three on Fossil Marsh on 

 25th December. 



Grey Goose, Anser sp. ? — Large movements of " Grey Geese " 

 are recorded from the Carse of Gowrie, Seggieden, and Hareshaw- 

 muir 20th April to ist May. From 24th September to 22nd 

 October big arrivals of "Grey Geese" are reported and they were 

 unusually plentiful in north and east Fife till mid-November, 



White-fronted Goose, Anser albifrons. — Nineteen were seen 

 at Vallay (O.H.) on 29th April and one there on loth May. About 

 fifty on North Uist on 27th September, and three large skeins flying 

 over Loch Tay towards Oban on 30th September. 



Bean Goose, A^iser fabalis fabalis. — Sixty passed over Fenwick, 

 Ayrshire, on ist May, 40 ft. up going due north at mid-day (2. xv., 89). 

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