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MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1899 77<br />
PHYLLOSCOPUS RUFUS (Chiftchaff).<br />
Tweed Chirnside, April 5th, Oct. ist. Clyde Lendallbot,<br />
April 6th. Outer Hebrides Barra. Nov. iSth, two.<br />
PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS (Willow Wren).<br />
Tay Comrie, April 25th (singing).<br />
Methven Boy, Sept. 23rd.<br />
Forth Hermitage, Blackford Hill, April 2 ist. Isle of May, May<br />
nth (wings and legs sent). Tweed Halmyre, April 22nd, several;<br />
Sept. 1 4th, last seen. Broughton, April 23rd. Outer Hebrides<br />
Barra, March 151!!,<br />
one in garden. Clyde Beith, April 8th.<br />
Lendalfoot, April lyth. Lamlash L.H., Aug. 25th, two. Pollokshaws<br />
and Queen's Park, Glasgow, Sept. i2th. Solway Dumfries,<br />
April 1 6th, one.<br />
Earliest, March i5th, Barra; latest, Sept. 23rd, Methven Boy.<br />
PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX (Wood Wren).<br />
Forth Braid Hermitage, May 5th, one singing. Tweed Chirnside,<br />
May 20th, Sept. ist. Clyde Beith, May i/ith.<br />
Earliest, May 5th, Braid.<br />
ACROCEPHALUS PHRAGMiTis (Sedge Warbler).<br />
loth. Braid<br />
Tay Fordoun, May Qth. Forth Comiston, May<br />
Burn, May icth. Isle of May, May isth (leg and wing). Tweed<br />
Halmyre, May 5th. CHirnside, May ist, not plentiful. Clyde<br />
Thornliebank, April 3oth.<br />
Earliest,<br />
April 3oth, Thornliebank.<br />
LOCUSTELLA N/EViA (Grasshopper Warbler).<br />
Clyde,<br />
Beith, April 3oth.<br />
MOTACILLIN.B (Wagtails).<br />
Shetland North Unst, Wagtails, April 23rd, one. Orkney<br />
North Ronaldshay, Wagtails, Sept. yth, nine, seldom seen. Pentland<br />
Skerries, Wagtails, May 5th, several. Sutherland Cape Wrath,<br />
Wagtails, April 2 ist, one ; May 2nd, three ; May i5th, two ; Sept. ist,<br />
one. Moray M. rail (Yellow Wagtail), July i ith, one in meadows<br />
at mouth of Beauly River ("Annals," 1900, p. 48).<br />
Dee Rattray<br />
Head, M. melanope (Gray Wagtail), Aug. 3oth, at lantern with other<br />
birds. Forth Musselburgh, M. lugubris (Pied Wagtail), Sept. i2th,<br />
in some numbers. Tweed Chirnside, M. alba (White Wagtail), May<br />
Whiteadder. Outer Hebrides<br />
1 5th, Tweed. M. ran', May i5th,<br />
Island Ghlais, Wagtails, April yth, several. Argyll and Isles Tiree,<br />
Wagtail, March 2nd. M. alba, May 3rd, a few; May 5th, many;
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