. British birds. Birds. m/fW5. Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1920, including Migration. By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora J. Rintoul. (Reprinted from The Scottish Naturalist, 1921, pp. 105-120, and 133-158.) This report, which is in its usual concise and useful form, contains a great deal of interest and importance. The year 1920, in fact, was quite a notable one for Scottish Ornithology. A large number of occasional visitors was reported, especially from Lerwick, which seems fast becoming a second Fair Isle, but of greater importance was the attempted nesting of the Bee-Eater and the nestin
. British birds. Birds. m/fW5. Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1920, including Migration. By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora J. Rintoul. (Reprinted from The Scottish Naturalist, 1921, pp. 105-120, and 133-158.) This report, which is in its usual concise and useful form, contains a great deal of interest and importance. The year 1920, in fact, was quite a notable one for Scottish Ornithology. A large number of occasional visitors was reported, especially from Lerwick, which seems fast becoming a second Fair Isle, but of greater importance was the attempted nesting of the Bee-Eater and the nesting of the Br ambling, a new nesting-place of the Gannet and the extension of the Fulmar, all of which have already been reported in our pages. Many occurrences of rare visitors, however, are here reported for the first time and of the most important of them we give brief particulars below. The whole report provides a most excellent summary of observations in Scotland in 1920, and it is very seldom that anything is missed in these reports, so that we may mention for the sake of completeness that occurrences of Blackcaps and Continental Robin at S. Uist and of Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Inverness-shire in 1920, recorded in our pages (Vol. XIV., pp. 117 and 276) appear to have been overlooked. Northern Bullfinch {Pyrrhula p. pyrrhida).—This bird has been recorded from the northern isles in most autumns or winters during recent years. It was frequently reported from Lerwick (Shetland) between January 13th and March 20th, a female is noted on October 2ist, and on Fair Isle there were three on October 28th, while one is recorded at Kergord, Weisdale (Shetland) on May 3rd—an unusally late date. Ortolan Bunting [Embenza kortulana).—Single birds are reported from Noss Head (Caithness) on May 3rd and 4th, Fair Isle on the 3th and Lerwick on the 3rd, and on November i6th. Rustic Bunting [E. rustica).—One was obtained near Lerwick on October 6th. Richard's Pipit (Aiithus r. richar
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