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another individual being in company with it. There is a 

 useful list of Northumberland records of the Great Snipe, and 

 a new record of Temmi7ick's Stint. That the Lesser Black- 

 hacked Gull is one of the commonest of the Gulls along the 

 shore at all seasons (the italics are ours), is a somewhat sur- 

 prising statement. A new record of an Ivory-Gull shot in 

 Northumberland in 1897 may be mentioned, as well as a 

 Brunnich's Guillemot shot near the Fames in the winter of 

 1883-4. The occurrence of Manx Shearwaters in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Fames in July should also be noted. 



We may note the following as the most important of the 

 corrections : The supposed case of the interbreeding of a 

 Merlin and ^es/re/ mentioned by Mr. Evans {Fauna of Tweed, 

 p. 135) is disposed of, as is the recorded occurrence of Saiul- 

 Grouse in Northumberland in 1872 (c/. op. cit. and Hand-List 

 Brit. Birds, p. 163). In like manner the Nifjht-Heron said 

 to have been shot on Holy Isle in 1909 is evidently a jbad 

 record, while a Spoonbill said to have been shot at the same 

 place in December, 1908, is also an error, though one was 

 seen there in August of that year and another in May, 1904. 

 Mr. Bolam also gives good evidence to show that the Kitii- 

 wake has probably never deserted St. Abb's Head, as was 

 su]iposed both by Mr. Muirhead and Mr. Evans. 



But everyone is liable to error, and Mr. Bolam himself is 

 not free from it ; thus we find the record of a supposed American 

 Bitteryi in the Pentland Hills in 1861 resuscitated, although 

 Howard Saunders did his best to give it the death-blow in 

 the appendix to the first edition of his Manual. Nor do we 

 believe in either the Lanarkshire or Shetland breeding-records 

 of the Red-hacked Shrike. There are, too, some careless 

 quotations ; thus, on p. 52, a Y ellow-hrowed Warbler recorded 

 by the Misses Rintoul and Baxter in the Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History (1908, p. 15), as seen on the Isle of May on 

 September 29th, 1907, is ascribed to Mr. John Paterson, 

 who was only the compiler of the records for the year, and 

 in mentioning the occurrence on p. 135 (not 134) of the same 

 volume of our contemporary, Mr. Paterson gave a reference 

 to the original record. There are several similar mistakes 

 in the book. Mr. Bolam is also often much behindhand in 

 his summaries of distribution outside his own area. 



The book contains many interesting notes (though not 

 quite systematic enough to have great value) on migration, 

 and we may draw special attention to the account of the 

 immigration of Wood-Pigeons, and to the remarks on the 

 immigrations of Tawny Owls and of Barn-Owls, the latter 

 probably being of the dark-breasted race though the 



