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IX. WEST ROSS AND SKYE. 
The Great Grey Shrike is not included in Mr. Dixon's catalogue 
of the Birds of Gairloch, nor yet in my list of the Birds of the 
Isle of Skye. 
We should, nevertheless, expect that it will eventually occur in 
at least the mainland portion of this faunal area. 
X. OUTER HEBRIDES, 
I am not cognisant of any occurrence of this species in the 
Outer Hebrides. 
XI. ARGYLL AND THE ISLES. 
The late Mr. Robert Gray says that he examined specimens of 
this Shrike, which had been procured in Argyllshire (Birds of the 
West of Scotland, p. 65). I am sorry that I can not personally 
extend this statement. 
XII. CLYDE AREA. 
There are many records of Great Grey Shrikes killed in this 
large faunal region. Mr. Harvie-Brown remarks that a male 
Great Grey Shrike, killed at Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Feb. 
3rd, 1803, "illustrates line across central districts of Scotland" 
(Migration Report, 1883, p. 12). Among other instances, the 
following may be cited : — 1865, one killed in Dumbartonshire in 
December; 1866, January, another killed at Motherwell; 1868, 
December, one. In 1878, a Great Grey Shrike was killed at 
Rossdhu in December, when the incident elicited from Mr. James 
Lumsden the accompanying criticism : — " The Shrike is very rare 
in the Loch Lomond district, not more than four or five specimens 
having occurred " (Proc. N. H. Glasgow, 4, p. 200). But the 
species reappeared in 188 1, when a male bird, which had recently 
eaten a goldcrest, was shot on the 30th of December. 
In reviewing the foregoing data, it becomes apparent that the 
Great Grey Shrike occurs irregularly and in sparing numbers all 
over Eastern Scodand ; that it is fairly represented in the south- 
west of the Scottish mainland, but is seldom detected in the 
Shetland and Orkney faunal area, and is not known, so far as 
