EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND. 3 



Faroe. — From Faroe, thanks again to our friend Herr H. C. 

 Miiller, we have the following report, some twelve entries or so 

 between Jan. 1st and Sept. 10th, 1883 : — 



On Jan. 1st three Wild Swans, (7. musicus^ seen flying S. at 

 noon. On April 28th one GaUinula chloropus, Waterhen, taken 

 alive in Vaay in Bordo. Between May 3rd and 11th several 

 White Wagtails seen during N.N.E., stormy, with snow at diffe- 

 rent localities in the islands. On May 27th two Eed-necked 

 Phalaropes were seen on the sea near Thorshavn during S.W. 

 wind, moderate, with showers of rain. 



In August White Wagtails again appeared, when several 

 were seen on the 21st at Thorshavn at noon, fresh W. breeze 

 and clear. Between Aug. 28th and Sept. 10th, Whimbrels (see 

 under Whimbrel, Curlew) were preparing for departure, and 

 disappeared on the last-named date. During this time the winds 

 were from N.W. on Aug. 28th by N. to N.E. on Aug. 30th to 

 Sept. 3rd, and W. on the 10th, the day of departure. 



Note. — Herr H. C. Miiller informs me that a lighthouse will 

 be shortly erected at Nossoe, in Faroe, eighty feet above the sea. 

 Herr Miiller considers that this will prove a good station for 

 observing birds during migration. Suderoe would also be a good 

 observatory. He also told me of the occurrence, for the first 

 time, of Sciurus novehoracensis at Nordtalik, Greenland, about 

 May, 1882 ; and of the occurrence also of a young Sabine's Gull 

 at the same place. I have a young Sabine's Gull, brought home 

 last year (1883) by the whalers to Dundee. 



Of the progress of the scheme of accumulation of migrational 

 data in other parts of the world, we may notice here that Dr. 

 Arthur proposes to take up the subject at the lighthouses in New 

 Zealand, and will send the Committee his schedules for arrange- 

 ment. 



Our American friends have made a promising start with 

 similar intentions, but of a much wider scope, as is shown by 

 the circular, which we here reprint, as it will show to our 

 reporters other collateral subjects which offer plenty of oppor- 

 tunity for observation, and which can easily be made as applicable 

 here as in North America, as regards our commoner species. 

 Schedules somewhat more elaborate than ours have been issued 

 also to lighthouses in America : — 



*' At the first congress of the American Ornithologists' Union, 



