In Mr Georgeson's next six months' bulletin, he reports:--
April 3d, wind S.W. Three Ravens and two Hooded Crows, and one _Golden Plover_--local migration. He also mentions Sand Larks arriving to breed about the 5th April. "The only land birds that remained the winter are a few Rock and Meadow Pipits, which breed here in large numbers; also about a dozen pairs of Wheatears and a few "Linnets" (_i.e._, Twites.--J. A. H. B.) Two nests of the Eider Duck on the island in May. Early in May the wind was light and variable. The only birds I saw were three Black-Backed Gulls and five Herring Gulls, and a few Eider Ducks, but as the breeding season advanced they left the island. Two pairs of Shielducks came to the island _from the direction of St Kilda_--wind light, N.E.--and were seen flying away in spring with their young in a N.E. direction. There are no Scarts here in the breeding season. They and other rock birds leave for more suitable rocks as the season advances. Large flocks of Pictarnies arrive here in June, and breed in great numbers, the island being covered with their nests.
In the last quarterly schedule Mr Georgeson tells us ;--By the 24th August the land birds had all left, except a few "Linnets" (_i.e._, _Twites_--J. A. H. B.), a few Rock and Marsh (_i.e._, "_Meadow_") Pipits. A _Corncrake_, a very unusual bird here, came to our garden on 11th August, but left on the corn being cut. September 7th, a few _Scarts_ returned, and fifty to sixty Kittiwakes. Many _Solan Geese_. Two Herons seen feeding on rocks on September 8th flew off on the 10th seaward. October 5th, large flock of Snow Buntings part of the day, and then flew off in a N.E. direction. On the 20th October a large flock of Wild Geese came from N.E. with a N.E. wind, lighted to rest, and then flew off _west_ (_i.e._, out to sea). Snipe usually remain over the winter at Monach, but leave in the breeding-season. On night of November 10th to 11th a Woodcock--a rare bird here--struck, along with Terns, Mavis, and Blackbirds. Another rare bird was found dead same morning, the name of which I do not know. "Exact colour of a Kittiwake, the size of a Stormy Petrel. (No doubt the Grey Phalarope, young bird of the year.--J. A. H. B.) A large flock of "Pictarnies" (_i.e._, Terns) came from E., rested, and then flew away west, wind N.E. at the time, on same day.