Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

84 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Dotterel).
Forth May 5th,
two shot at Gullane.
Argyll a)id Isles Dhuheartach,
CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS (Golden Plover).
May loth, several at lantern, two
killed; July iSth-igth, in numbers at light with many small birds,
haze and rain. Tiree, March 3ist, very large flocks; Oct. 22nd,
flocks.
VANELLUS VULGARIS (Lapwing).
Orkney Pentland Skerries, March 25th; April loth, ten. Argyll
and Isles Dhuheartach, March 1 3th, flocks round light with Thrushes
and Larks, haze.
STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Turnstone).
Dee Rattray Head, Sept. 4th, small flock. Forth Aberlady,
Aug. 1 7th, two in summer plumage. Argyll and Isles Tiree, Sept.
7th, have returned. Dhuheartach, Nov. 29th, a flock of twenty.
Clyde Bute, May i8th, numerous at St. Ninian's Bay and Ardscalpsie,
fourteen in summer plumage. Barassie (Ayrshire), May
2ist, six. Whiting Bay, Sept. 5th, about twenty. Bute, Sept. 7th,
numerous small parties.
PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS (Gray Phalarope).
Dee Aberdeen, Sept. 1 6th, " twelve, first time I have seen them
here." Argyll and Isles Dhuheartach, Sept. 27th, two.
SCOLOPAX RUSTICULA (Woodcock).
Orkney North Ronaldshay, Nov. i st, killed at lantern ;
Nov.
nth, at lantern with other birds. Caithness Thurso, March 25th.
Forth Isle of May, Nov. 2 2nd, three or four. Argyll and Isles
Dhuheartach, Nov. i6th, one. Clyde Lamlash L.H., April i3th,
three.
GALLINAGO MAJOR (Great Snipe).
Solway Young bird killed near Castle- Douglas ("Field," Oct.
2ist, 1899, p. 667).
8th.
GALLINAGO GALLINULA (Jack Snipe).
Dee Aberdeen, Sept. i6th, one. Argyll and Isles Tiree, Oct.
Dee
TRINGA MINUTA (Little Stint).
Aberdeen, April aoth; Sept. i6th, three (leg and wing sent).