BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vii. 



Iceland Falcon in the Outer Hebrides. — ^Mr. W. L. 

 MacGillivray records {Scot. Nat, 1913, p. 141) that a disabled 

 Iceland Falcon [Falco r. islandicus) was seen on Barra on 

 March 31st, 1913, and was picked up dead the next day. 

 Mr. MacGillivray is wrong in stating that this is the first 

 record for the Outer Hebrides, as several have been previously 

 obtained. 



Greenland Falcons in Ireland and Scotland. — Mr. E. 

 Warren records {Zool., 1913, p. 155) that a specimen of 

 Falco r. candicans was shot on Bartragh Island, co. Mayo, 

 on March 2nd, 1913, and that another was seen {i.e., ^. 231) 

 at the same place on May 4th. Mr. S. Armstrong records 

 (Field, 19.IV.13, p. 772) the shooting of another at Dungiven, 

 CO. Derry, on April 13th. 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke states {Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 116) 

 that an adult male obtained at Unst, Shetland, on March 15th, 

 1913, and an adult female caught on Colonsay on March 31st, 

 have recently been received by the Royal Scottish Museum. 

 Mr. W. L. MacGilHvray also records {i.e., p. 141) that he saw 

 a Greenland Falcon on February 21st and another on 

 March 24th at Barra (Outer Hebrides). 



HoNEY-BuzzARD IN SHETLAND. — ^An adult Specimen of 

 Pernis a. apivorus was seen at Lerwick, Unst, on May 25th, 

 1913, and brought to Dr. J. Edmonston Saxby on the 28th 

 {Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 161). 



Increase of Fulmar Petrel in Caithness. — ^Dr. J. A. 

 Harvie-Bro^vu announces {Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 141) that he 

 hears from Mr. Lewis Dunbar that the Fulmars breeding 

 on Berriedale Head (first observed there by Mr. A. H. 

 Meiklejohn, vide antea, Vol. V., p. 56) " have now occupied 

 the whole range of the Berriedale Rocks." In the next 

 number of our contemporary (p. 164) Dr. Harvie-Brown 

 states that two Fulmars were shot at or near Pennan Head, 

 Aberdeenshire, in May, 1913. 



Gull-billed Tern in Orkney. — ^Mr. J. Bain records 

 {Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 154) that a male Sterna n. nilotica, 

 which is a very rare vagrant to England and has not before 

 occurred in Scotland, was picked up exhausted in the 

 Lighthouse garden at the Pentland Skerries on May 7th, 1913. 



Great Skua in Wigtownshire. — ^Mr. J. G. Gordon 

 records {Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 115) that he saw a single Ster- 

 corarius s. skua on November 1st, 1912, in Luce Bay, and he 

 believes this to be the first record for the county. 



