Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

246 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
only a few odd birds have been recorded from that locality in
summer.
Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) appear to have been commoner than
usual in the islands ;
several were noted at Binscarth.
At least two pairs of Red-necked Phalaropes (Phalaropus hyperboreus)
bred this season on North Ronaldshay.
On 1
3th August Mr. C. H. Ackroyd saw a Barn Owl (Strix
flammed) at Yesnabie near Skaill, the second time in which he has
seen this bird in Orkney. T. E. BUCKLEY, Inverness.
Chiffehaffin "Clyde." The editor's note in the "Annals" for
July on the occurrence of the Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus rufus) in
Midlothian and the paucity of records for that county recall to me
that since I published an account of the distribution of this species
in
"Clyde" ("Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow," v. (N.S.), pp. 48-
52) some additional information has come to hand which may be
recorded. I had overlooked an interesting reference of Mr. Gray's
in Bryce's "Geology of Arran," etc. (1872 ed.), where he says (p.
299), "I have seen and shot the Chiffehaffin the Cumbrae Islands."
Mr. Wm. Evans tells me regarding my reference to its occurrence
at Dundonald in Ayrshire," that he heard it there in 1884. In
the same county the following localities are new: Barr (April 1898,
fide Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt) ; Lady Glen, Kilkerran (several, April
1898); Ballochmyle (two heard, May 1898), and a little farther
down the Water of Ayr, on the same occasion, one, at Barskimming ;
in the village of Fairlie, one (June 1899); from Lendalfoot Mr.
Chas. Berry reports them " very plentiful " in April 1900.
Localities
indicated by Dr. Fullarton, Lamlash, for Arran, in notes relating
the arrival of summer birds, are Auchenhew, Kildonan (April 1898),
Glenree (April 1899), and Moniemore (April 1900). Mr. John
Robertson found it in two or three places about Mountstuart, Bute,
in June 1899. In a list of birds of Queen's Park and Camphill
(1893) by the late Mr. A. A. Thomson, for a copy of which I am
indebted to Mr. J.
it
M'Naught Campbell,
is entered with the letter
"
f," indicating a few. The most interesting occurrence of all is
perhaps that of a pair of males calling in Cleghorn woods, near
Lanark, on the i6th of June this year, the first time I have heard
it
anywhere in Lanarkshire. The country between Lanark and
Hamilton is rich in sylvan bird-life, but the Chiffchaff has apparently
not been known to occur there hitherto. In Dumbartonshire,
Mr. Harold Raeburn heard it at Shandon (1894), as I learned
from Mr. W. Evans ;
and in the course of a walk in the first week in
June this year, with Mr. John Robertson, from Balloch to Luss, we
heard it at two or three places. JOHN PATERSON, Glasgow.
Hybrid Capereailie and Blackcock. I saw in Mr. Mackay's
shop a very fine specimen of this cross, a male bird, which had been
to