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the west coast also had been visited, for on 15th and 

 i6th November two birds were watched at Poolewe, in 

 Ross-shire. 



Subsequent Extension of Area Visited. — Previous to 

 i6th November the vanguard of the invasion had reached 

 Scotland, and on that date the beginning of the m.ain body 

 made its appearance. Thereafter records come thick and 

 fast, and a wide extension of the area visited becomes 

 apparent. At first the majority of the records come from 

 the maritime counties on the east coast, and in particular 

 from the counties which, forming salients in the North Sea, 

 present an opportunity for landing to a migration from the 

 north-east. Thus on i8th November there are coastal 

 records from the Outer Hebrides, Shetland, Aberdeenshire, 

 Kincardineshire, East Lothian, and Midlothian, on the 19th, 

 Banffshire, Berwickshire, and Wigtownshire are added, and 

 on the 20th, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross, Forfar, and Holy 

 Isle. Whereas during these three days the only inland 

 records come from Perthshire (where four birds had already 

 been seen on the i6th), and from Carlisle. 



I have already pointed out that a few early arrivals had 

 been noticed further inland than one might have expected, 

 but some of these were moving westwards, probably along 

 routes determined partly by the food-supply available and 

 partly by the shelter afforded. One such line of movement 

 appears to have been through the midland valley in 

 Stirlingshire, and thence by way of Kelvin Valley to 

 Dumbartonshire and the environs of Glasgow. After the 

 large influx of the three days, i8th to 20th November, the 

 inland trek from the coast becomes more marked, and 

 on 2 1st November Waxwings were noted far inland in 

 Dumbartonshire and Peeblesshire, and about the same time 

 in Inverness-shire, on the 22nd on the south coast of Fife, 

 on the 26th in Wigtownshire, on the 27th in Roxburghshire 

 and for the first time in Selkirkshire. 



During this period the English records reveal the same 

 trend, for while the majority are east coast records from 

 Northumberland and Yorkshire, the westward dispersal is 

 indicated by the occurrence of birds at Carlisle (20th and 



