The Scottish Naturalist. 
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requires to be well known to be valued as a most useful aid to 
definiteness of distribution. Following the precedent of my Report 
on the Visitation of Pallas' Sand Grouse to Scotland, I have 
arranged the occurrences of Lanius excuhitor under the faunal 
divisions, and I venture to hope that others will adopt the same 
plan in dealing with Scottish birds. I have treated the two forms 
Lanius excuhitor and Lanius major as one, because of the difficulty 
of separating them. In this connection, I may add that, though I 
have examined many Grey Shrikes shot in Scotland and the North 
of England, I have only as yet seen one adult male, killed in Eng- 
land, that combined the characteristic of the single white alar bar 
with the white rump and white breast that distinguish the Siberian 
specimens of Lanius major that Mr. Seebohm kindly showed me. 
But upon this point I may be permitted to quote a letter from my 
friend^ the late Mr. Robert Gray, written about a bird that I had 
reported to him, and dated from Edinburgh, January 3, 1884: 
"The bird you refer to," he says, "is evidently the well-known 
excuhitor, which always has the double wing spot. Lanius major 
or Pallas' Shrike has occurred many times in Scotland, and is the 
species of whose existence in the Eastern Counties I ventured to 
surmise in my ornithological correspondence twenty years ago, 
although I failed to convince Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser when 
they published their diagnoses of British Shrikes in their Birds of 
Europe." 
In confirmation of Mr. Gray's remark, I would add that almost 
all the Scottish Grey Shrikes that have come under my notice pos- 
sessed only a single white alar bar, though one fine double-barred 
bird lived for some time in our possession. I believe that most 
of our Scottish Shrikes are of Scandinavian origin, and more or less 
cross-bred. 
I. SCOTTISH SOLWAY AREA. 
The Grey Shrikes are comparatively rare in the west of this 
faunal area, but more numerous on their lines of migration from 
the Forth to the Solway. Mr. R. Service wrote in 1884 that "the 
Great Grey Shrike had occurred nearly every winter for the last 
few years " in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Mr. R. Gray records 
a young male shot near Kirkcudbright on the 28th of October, 
1880. This specimen exhibited vermicular markings on the 
