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following on these notes, a most interesting series of 

 records made by Mr Berry (Lentran) appeared in the 

 Scottish Naturalist, 1916, 68. Although these do not all 

 belong to the year under review, we think it well for the 

 sake of completeness, and because of their ornithological 

 importance, to include them here. Mr Berry mentions 

 having seen Crested Tits in north-east Inverness in 

 September 1907; in May 1910 he came upon them in 

 the locality mentioned by Mr Blackwood, and also in 

 "another locality further to the east." He knows of them 

 in two distinct localities in the lower reaches of the Findhorn 

 Valley. In 1911 he found ^hem in a new part of north-east 

 Inverness, where he has seen them several times since. 

 They were first noted by him in east Ross-shire in 19 10, and 

 he records their spread in that county. 



The most interesting and important extension of 

 breeding range which has taken place for many years 

 is that of the Gannets, which nested on the Noup of 

 Noss, Bressay, Shetland, this season. They were first 

 seen on the 7th of May when they began nesting opera- 

 tions, four nests being built (i. 191 5, 251). As no new 

 sites have been colonised by the Gannet for a great many 

 years, and all the known nesting places in our islands, with 

 the exception of the Bass Rock, are on the west coast, this 

 may indeed be regarded as a "remarkable occurrence." One 

 of our correspondents in Shetland tells us that he was told 

 by some fishermen that they had seen Gannets on several 

 occasions this summer sitting on a stack, called the Burra 

 Stack, about one and a half miles from the lighthouse 

 on Bressay, but they do not think they were breeding. Is it 

 possible however that, like the Fulmars, they like to prospect 

 for a year or two before nesting? 



Summer and Nesting. 



There are not quite so many nesting notes as usual in 

 191 5, but the shortage is accounted for by the fact that 

 many of our usual correspondents are away on active 

 service. The notes sent are, however, sufficient to show 



