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WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND. 



" And now, their route designed, their leaders chose, 

 Their tribes adjusted, clean'd their vigorous wings. 

 And many a circle, many a short essay, 

 Wheel'd round and round, in congregation full 

 The figur'd flight ascends, and riding high 

 The aerial billows, mixes with the clouds." 



Thomson. 



Schedules were sent to thirty-four stations, as in previous 

 years. We have received filled schedules from seventeen stations. 



Generally the returns are very light, still lighter than last 

 year. 



We have notes on about thirty-nine species of land birds from 

 this coast ; about twenty species of water birds ; and about 

 eight species of littoral species, or wading birds. 



The spring migration, for sake of uniformity with the East 

 Coast, I have kept separate. Weather notes are included in the 

 General Kemarks. 



List of Stations. 



79 '80 '81 '82 '83 



- * =1'^ 81. Cape Wrath, Sutherland 400 ft. 



* * * * 82. Ehu Stoir, „ 195 „ Wm. Wither 



Outer Hebrides. 



* ^< -^ i< '^ 83. Butt of Lewis 170,, A.Thompson 



=:^ * '^ 84. Stornoway 56 ,, John Grierson 



-1^ >:< - 85. Island Glass 130 „ 



* ^= * -:- 'V 86. Monach Isles j ^^ " [ J-Youngclause 



* * 87. Ushenish 176,, 



* 88. BarraHead 683,, Wm. Irvine 



Mainland, Skye, and Inner Hebrides. 



89. Bona, Skye 222 „ 



- >!< ^:< ■-:< 90. Kyleakin, Bosshire 53 „ D. M'Cnlloch 



