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THIS report supplies in an epitomised form the results of the activities of Scottish ornithologists during the past year. It is a comprehensive and well-arranged booklet of ninety-six pages, and is both useful and important, since it affords much information hitherto unpublished, as well as a résumé of all that has appeared in serial literature during the period covered. A pleasing feature is to be found in the fact that these well-known lady ornithologists have themselves contributed materially to the year's operations by their investigations made during a twc months' residence in the lighthouse at the Isle of May—a famous bird observatory situated in the North Sea off the mouth of the Firth of Forth. There are also contributions from nearly one hundred observers, posted between the Muckle Flugga (the northernmost limit of the British Isles) and the shores of the Solwav and Tweed. This vast amount of material has been arranged under the following headings: birds new to Scotland; uncommon visitors and species new to faunai areas; extension of breeding range; hybrids; summer and nesting; winter; ringing; plumage; food, habits, & c.; and migration.
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C., W. Scottish Ornithology in 19121. Nature 92, 171–172 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092171b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/092171b0