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which Waxwing visits have seldom been recorded. These 

 records — Polmaise, Stirlingshire (? before loth November); 

 Inverurie, Aberdeenshire (about loth November); Croy 

 Station, Dumbartonshire (loth November); Burnage, Man- 

 chester (lOth November), and Oundle, Northamptonshire 

 (nth November) — suggest that previous to loth November 

 migrants had reached the east coast, but had passed un- 







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noticed. On the east coast Waxwings were first seen on 

 1 2th November at Broughty Ferry and North Berwick, 

 and subsequent days brought several records from the coast 

 and its neighbourhood, as well as from further inland — 

 Bonnybridge, Stirling, about 12th November; Holy Island, 

 14th; Scarborough, 15th; Cadder, N.-W. Lanarkshire, on 

 the same date; Joppa and Inveresk, both on the south side 

 of the Firth of Forth, 15th and i6th respectively. Already 



1 From Saunders' Manual of British Birds, by courtesy of the pub- 

 lishers, Messrs Gurney & Jackson. 



