loi 



BIRDS. 



Occurrences had been noted previously from the Isle of May 

 (Forth) (see Migration Reports and Proc. Boyal. Phys. Soc, vol. viii. 

 p. 498), e.g. a male, Isle of May, on May 2, 1885. 



In 1888 Dr. Dewar saw a male on the 21st May on the farm of 

 Kirkton, about half a mile from Arbroath, which remained and was 

 watched for several days following {Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1898, 

 p. 180). 



A specimen of the Red-backed Shrike was sent "in the skin" by 

 Mr. Xichol Simpson, of Mayfield, early in September 1890, which 

 had been shot on the coast some miles to the west of Arbroath, near 

 Ethie, on the 13th August 1890 — a female in the second year, and 

 not having attained full adult plumage. Col. Drummond Hay 

 records it (Scot. Xat., 1891. p. 67). 



[Lanius auriculatus, MuU. Woodchat Shrike. 

 Don includes it in his list of 1813, but without remarks.] 



Family AMPELID^. 

 Ampelis garrulus, L. Waxwing. 



Not truly gi-egarious. Occasional visitant. Ranges in the times of its 

 appearances between March and December. In some seasons comes 

 in large numbers, and perhaps these "rushes" are fairly regular in 

 their intervals (?). One thing, however, I think may be believed 

 — temporary congestion at their gi^eat breeding haunts may, and 

 probably does, cause these and similar outbiu'sts. 



Col. Drummond Hay does not appear to have had any definite 

 or reliable accounts from the Carse of Gowrie, at le-ast prior to 1874 

 or to 1880. However, it appears in Don's list as early as 1813, 

 though without remarks. The probability is that it had long been 

 an " erratic." 



In 1871 there was a "rush" of the species as chronicled by 

 Mr. Robert G-ray, who had a paper on the circumstance read before 

 the Natural History Society of Glasgow, but which was not printed 

 in the Proceedings of the year (vol. xi.). 



In 1873 one was got in the north of Fife (Dundee A dmiiser ahont 

 the 20th February). 



In 1881 Mrs. Nicholson, of Glenber^-ie, Kincardineshire, picked up 

 a dead one upon the public road after a severe snowstorm of 1881-2. 

 The bird was at that time new to Mr. Milne, as he states in the 



