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the further record, "two, one very white, the other dark." We 

 would like specimens of these " very white Wagtails." Possibly 

 records relate to three species, but it will be safer only to include 

 one at present. Titlarks (Eock Pipits ?) arrived in large numbers 

 on Isle of May on March 9tli, and " supplemented some half dozen 

 that remained all winter." N.B. The ones that remained are 

 probably " Eock Pipits " {Anthus ohscurus), and the additions are 

 probably ''Meadow Pip its" (A.pratensis). In autumn, at Sumburgh 

 Head, Pentland Skerries, Bell Eock, and Isle of May ; earliest, 

 one at Isle of May (" Mosscheeper," J. Agnew ; or Meadow Pipit, 

 J. A. H. B.) ; latest, Bell Eock, Oct. 9th, " Mosscheeper," Mr. Jack; 

 on this occasion mixed with Bullfinches. Eush on Sept. 4th, at 

 Sumburgh Head, large flocks of " Eock Larks," auct. John 

 Wilson ; and a constant stream of the same on 15th, along with 

 Larks. Desultory migration during September ; only one record, 

 curiously enough, in October. Two species of Anthince {Mota- 

 cilliclce) noticed. Note. — See remarks on land migration of the 

 Pied Wagtail at end of the General Eemarks. 



Laniid.e. — One record, on Oct. 16th, at Isle of May; one bird 

 accompanied rush of Oct. 8th and 18th, strong S. after S.E. 

 One species recorded — the Great Grey Shrike. Notes. — A male 

 Great Grey Shrike killed at Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 

 (illustrates line across central districts of Scotland), Feb. 3rd, 

 1883 ; about 1st Nov., 1882, three Great Grey Shrikes (two male 

 and one female), and one same date at Eedcastle. Eosshire 

 (' Scotsman,' Feb. 17th, 1883) ; the last great appearance of this 

 species was in 1873 — 74. A golden Oriole {Oriolus cjalhula) oc- 

 curred during the October migration at Lerwick, along with two 

 Spotted Woodpeckers, a Tree Creeper, and the Golden-crested 

 Wrens. 



MuscicAPiDiE. — Pied Flycatcher : three records at Isle of 

 May on Aug. 15th, one female, light S., rain and fog; on Sept. 

 15th one female struck and killed ; on Nov. 7th one male flying 

 S., but obtained, fresh S.W. breeze. One species. Notes. — Two 

 Waxwings, a very fine male and a female, killed at Kinneil by 

 Mr. D. Nichol, gamekeeper to Mr. Eussell, Dundee Castle, on 

 Jan. 18th, 1883. Kinneil is close to Bo'ness, at the head of the 

 Firth of Forth. This female is one of the very finest birds I ever 

 saw. Out of the hundreds exaiiiined in the frozen marts of St. 

 Petersburg and Moscow I only saw one to equal it, the develop- 



