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Beport on /Scottish Ornithology in 1913, including Migration. 

 By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintonl. 

 Oliver & Boyd. Is. 6d. net. 



This is the third annual Report on Scottish Ornithology 

 to be issued separately. It is drawn up on the same excellent 

 plan as that for the previous year, the information being 

 given under the following headings : " Species and Sub- 

 species new to Scotland," " Birds new to Faunal Areas 

 and Uncommon Visitors," " Extension of Breeding Range," 

 " Summer and Nesting," " Winter," " Ringing," " Plumage," 

 " Habits," " Migration," and notes arranged under species 

 which form the bulk of the Report. So far as we have been 

 able to check it, this Report has been compiled with great 

 care and accviracy, and is altogether a very valuable piece 

 of work. 



The authors remark that the year 1913 was one of much 

 interest to students of Scottish Ornithology : five birds 

 new to the list were recorded, as well as many uncommon 

 visitors ; so far as summer and winter migrants were con- 

 cerned the date of their arrival and departure were on the 

 whole normal ; rock-breeding birds were reported from several 

 stations on the west coast as rare or absent ; on the other 

 hand, some of the Ducks, the Great Crested Grebe, and 

 notably Fulmars, extended their breeding ranges; while at 

 the end of the year the arrival of Waxwings in numbers was 

 an event of considerable interest. 



Many of the records in the Report have of course already 

 been published, but there are a number of very considerable 

 interest which appear here for the first time, and these with 

 a few others which have not previously been referred to 

 in our pages are noted below ; all the dates are in 1913 : — 



Mealy Redpoll {Garduelis I. linaria). — ^A few are recorded from 

 several of the northern isles and Outer Hebrides from mid-September 

 to mid-October, and a large immigration began on October 26tli and 

 lasted until the end of November. They were noted at many stations, 

 chiefly, apparently, in the northern isles and on the east coast, but 

 also as far west as the Outer Hebrides. 



Greenland Redpoll {C. I. rof>trata). — " Quite a party " were seen 

 at Fossil Marsh (Clyde) on November 8th, and again in November 

 and December, when specimens were procured and submitted to 

 Mr. Eagle Clarke for identification. 



Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortidana). — Fourteen at Fair Tole 

 at different dates in May and three on September 15th ; two at 



