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(7-8) Two shot at Glen App, Ayrshire, about the year 1897. 



(9) One exhibited by Mr. W. P. Pycraft at a meeting of the Brit. 

 Ornith. Club, on 2ist February 1906. It was shot by Mr. W. M. 

 Neilson at Barcaple, Ringford, Kirkcudbrightshire ("Bull. B. O. C." 

 1906, p. 54), and was received for preservation by Mr. Rowland Ward 

 on 22nd January 1906, having been shot a day or two previously. 

 -FRANCIS C. R. JOURDAIN, Clifton Vicarage, Ashburne, Derby- 

 shire. 



Supposed breeding of the Jack Snipe in Shetland. On the 

 1 2th June last, coming across the Scattald here, my setters set their 

 heads close together. On walking up I found a young Jack Snipe 

 (Gallinago gallinula), about half grown, before them. The yellow 

 feathers down the back were most distinct. I called the dogs off 

 and hunted round and found two old Jack Snipe, and another 

 young one able to fly a short distance. I am perfectly certain of 

 their being Jack Snipe. My attendant of his own accord said 

 "Jack Snipe." So far north there is nothing surprising in this, 

 especially as an old Shetland sportsman told me he had shot Jack 

 Snipe in Shetland in August, before the Wild Bird Act came into 

 force. R. C. HALDANE, Lochend, Shetland. 



[The supposed breeding of the Jack Snipe in Shetland is 

 an old, old story, but we cannot regard the evidence hitherto 

 adduced as entirely satisfactory. We are afraid that naturalists 

 have become sceptics on this subject, and will demand the pro- 

 duction of the eggs along with one or both of the parent birds 

 before the nesting of this species in our Islands can be accepted as 

 an established fact. EDS.] 



Ruffs and Reeves in Shetland. On ist September, when in the 

 marsh between lochs Spiggie and Brew, I put up over a dozen 

 Ruffs and Reeves (Machetes pugnax) in one flock. I have often 

 found an odd bird here at this season and earlier, but never so 

 many at one time. I went through the marsh again on the 7th, 

 but they had evidently passed on, as I did not come across a 

 single bird of this species. T. HENDERSON, Jun., Dunrossness. 



Sandwich Tern at Loeh of Strathbeg-. But once have I 

 noticed Sandwich Tern (Sterna cantiaca] near Peterhead. However, 

 on 27th July last I happened to be visiting the Loch of Strathbeg, 

 which is close to the sea, and was surprised to see quite a fair-sized 

 flock, which, with Common Tern and Black-headed Gulls, were quite 

 excited over my intrusion. Their behaviour was as if they had 

 nested there, but of that I could not make sure. WIU.IAM SERLE, 

 Duddingston. 



Fulmar inside the Outer Hebrides. Fulmars (Fulmants 

 glacialis) appear still to be rapidly extending their area of nesting 



