WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND. 



81 



home-bred birds. One with an injured muscle under the wing 

 was brought into the house, — also a red bird, — which was found 

 alive in a ditch close to. 



I would like further to have ascertained the boundaries within 

 which this migration was observed ; how far to the north and how 

 far to the south of the catchment Basin of Forth it extended. 

 Here I can do little more than direct attention to the facts, so 

 far as known to me. But it seems evident that, though so 

 abundantly observed at Airth and Kinnaird, scarcely any in- 

 crease was noticeable just across the Forth at Tullyallan or 

 West Grange, or in Fife ; and though numerous at Boss Priory 

 and Loch Lomond on the east side, no increase was observed at 

 Arden and the west side of the loch. When the birds "lifted " 

 from Kinnaird and Airth, their next probable resting place would 

 be Norway or the continental coast, possibly Heligoland, as no 

 notice is taken of them in the 1884 spring returns from Isle of 

 May or Bell Kock. Nor does there appear to have been any 

 corresponding movement through the Pentland Firth. 



I should like in this place to record the occurrence of the 

 Black Eedstart in the following form. It is previously recorded 

 by me in the Proc. Koyal Physical Society, Edinb. of April 23rd, 

 1884 :— 



Date. 



Locality. 



Species. 



r^ a 

 in 





o 



of 



o 



a 

 1 



<0 00 



"3 



32 



evailing 

 ind for 

 ist Few 

 Days. 



Weather. 









ko 





^ 





O 



OCB 





42 



^^^ 





1884. 



























Mar. 31. 



Pentland 

 Skerries. 



Buticilla 



titys 

 (Scop.). 



Ad. 



S" 





X 





X 



S.E. 



Strong. 



S.&S.E. 



Clear on 



28th. 



Fog on 

























31st. 





REMAEKS. 



* If with other species, name tl 



lem here: — 1 Eobin, Sandpipers, 1 Yellow Bunting, 



1 Chaffinch, " Stonechats" ( 



i.e., Wheatears), 1 G.C.Wren, 1 Common Thrush. 



M 



