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tification (cf. " Bull. Brit. Orn. Club," xiii. 12). Having had occasion 

 to re-examine this specimen, I was convinced that a mistake had been 

 made, and that the bird was a specimen of Eversmann's Warbler (/^. 

 borealis) — a conclusion with which Dr. Hartert entirely agrees. 

 Mr. Saunders and myself were both mistaken, being misled by 

 the fact \hat the bird had only a single wing-bar. This con- 

 spicuous character is, however, shared by a considerable number 

 of specimens of P. borealis^ though the fact is not stated in any of 

 the works on palaearctic birds to which I have access, and in most 

 of them much importance is made of the double wing-bar which is 

 more or less in evidence in the majority of examples of that species. 

 One now wonders if the specimen of P. viridanus obtained in 

 North Lincolnshire by Mr. Caton Haigh, in the autumn of 1905, 

 and also exhibited at the Ornithologist's Club, was really of that 

 species and not P. borealis : the latter bird, from its being a summer 

 visitor to northern Europe, is much the more likely to occur than 

 its more eastern congener. — Wm. Eagle Clarke. 



Long-eared Owls near Lerwick, Shetland. — On the 25th of 

 February 1909 I was out at Hayfield, near here, and saw three 

 Long -eared Owls among the trees. For the last fortnight of 

 February we had a spell of marvellous weather, more like summer 

 than early spring. Probably this may have been an inducement for 

 them to visit us. Two of the birds had been seen by the Hayfield 

 household for a couple of weeks before, but the third was only seen 

 for the first time on the 25 th February. I do not remember 

 hearing of them at this season before. I saw quite a lot of 

 Blackbirds at Hayfield too. — John S. Tulloch, Lerwick. 



Nesting- of the Stock-Dove in Lanarkshire. — In the Blantyre 

 district of Clyde valley the Stock -Dove {Columba oeiias) is now 

 becoming quite established as a breeding species. In the autumn 

 of 1906 I was informed by an acquaintance who pays some atten- 

 tion to bird-life, that he felt sure the Rock-Dove was breeding, as 

 he had seen one in the summer flying out from a rocky bank. 

 Having an idea that he meant the Stock-Dove, I determined to 

 find out in the following summer ; and was successful in finding 

 two nests in the beginning of May, In one of these two young 

 ones were successfully reared ; but the other pair of eggs were, I 

 think, destroyed by Magpies, which are far too plentiful here. 



Last season I located four pairs breeding here, but only the 

 small total of three young were fledged. The nesting sites chosen 

 were all pretty similar — a shelving part in the rocky bank ; and in 

 no case was there much attempt at nest - building. — Walter 

 Stewart, Blantyre, Lanarkshire. 



Whooper in Fifeshire. — On i8th January I picked up a dead 

 Wild Swan {Cygjius fnusicus) at the edge of Morton Loch, near 

 Tayport. I had no hand in compassing its death, but it may very 



