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occurred in Scotland and ranks with the greatest visitation 

 to the British Isles. It is impossible, of course, to state with 

 accuracy the total number of birds that landed in the country, 

 but from the actual observations of correspondents and from 

 their estimates of numbers in separate areas it is possible to 

 gain some idea of the numbers involved. On their first 

 arrival the birds were often seen in flocks of considerable 

 size: on 15th November, a flock of 14 was seen at Cadder, 

 in N.W. Lanarkshire; on 17th November, 13 at Joppa, Mid- 

 lothian; on 1 8th November, between 50 and 70 in the out- 

 skirts of Stornoway, about 20 at Dunbar and 25 at Killin, 

 Perthshire; on 19th November, about 40 at Dunglass, 

 Berwickshire, and a dozen at Banff. 



In the following week, on 20th November, a " dozen or 

 more" were seen on the Beauly Firth; 21st November, 30 at 

 Edrington Castle, and on the 22nd, about 15 in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Hutton and Flemington, both in Berwickshire. 

 On the latter date also, 10 were seen at Kirkwall, and 

 "quite a number were in the county" of Orkney, about 

 12 at Leckmelm, Ross-shire, and a similar number at 

 Inverness; while in England, about 12 were seen near 

 Silloth, on the west coast of Cumberland. November 23rd 

 brought few Scottish records, but in England 30 to 40 

 were seen at Stanwix, Carlisle, and on the east coast, 10 at 

 Beal in Northumberland, and 20 at Scarborough; on 25th 

 November, 14 were counted at Brora, Sutherland, and at 

 Beal 20 were now present- 

 After the week ending 26th November, there are fewer 

 records of large flocks, but on 27th November 20 to 30 were 

 seen near Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, and a careful estimate 

 by Mr A. A. Falconer indicates that about 200 in all were 

 then in that neighbourhood. "About ist December, over a 

 score " arrived at Cley in Norfolk, and many were seen at 

 Hunstanton in the same county, while in the beginning of 

 December a flock of about 30 was observed at Kilhillock, 

 near Cullen, in Banffshire, and on 4th December about 12 

 still remained at Pease Dean in the Cockburnspath district 

 of Berwickshire. Thereafter no flock containing more than 

 7 or 8 birds was noted. 



