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B.B., No. 30083, marked by Messrs. Robinson and 

 Smalley at Ravenglass, Cumberland, on June 10th, 

 1910, as a nestling. Recovered at Clondalkin, co. Dublin, 

 on October 5th, 1910. Reported by Mr. R. L. Blackham. 

 B.B., No. 8282, marked by Major H. Trevelyan at Lower 

 Lough Erne, co. Fermanagh, on June 17th, 1910, as a 

 nestling. Recovered at Hall-craig, Monea, co. Fer- 

 managh, on August 30th, 1910. Reported by Mr. Nat J. 

 Nixon, Junr. 



Common Gull {L. canus). — B.B., No. 31989, marked by Mr. 

 W. I. Beaumont at Stirk Island, off Lismore, Lynn of 

 Lorn, Argyllshire, on July 12th, 1910, as a nestling. 

 Recovered at Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, on Septem- 

 ber 3rd, 1910. Reported by Mr. John Mitchison. 



Herring-Gulls {L. argentatus). — B.B., No. 31907, marked 

 by Miss A. E. Jackson at Cromarty Firth, on July 9th, 

 1910, as a nestling. Recovered at Rosehearty, Aber- 

 deenshire, on August 19th, 1910. Reported by the 

 Rev. Wm. Serle. 



B.B., No. 32009, marked by Miss A. E. Jackson at Wick, 

 Caithness, on July 14th, 1910, as a nestling. Recovered 

 at Loch Linnlie, off Fort William, Inverness, N.B., on 

 August 27th, 1910. Reported by Mr. W. T. Kilgour. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus). — B.B., No. 

 31007, marked by Messrs. Robinson and Smalley at 

 Foulshaw, Westmorland, on June 24th, 1910, as a 

 nestling. Recovered at Point St. Gildas, mouth of the 

 Loire, France, on September 23rd, 1910. Reported by 

 Mons. R. Rousseau Duelle. 



ON SOME ISLE OF WIGHT BIRDS. 



Raven {Corvus corax). — We Hampshire naturalists were 

 no little grieved last year to hear that the last j)air of Fresh- 

 water Ravens were first robbed of their five eggs and then 

 shot. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, aided 

 by Lord Tennyson and their excellent watcher, Alfred Isaacs, 

 did all that they could to bring the offenders to justice, but 

 in vain. However, we have the good news to report this 

 year that a pair nested in another part of the island and 

 safely brought off three young. Isaacs tells me that the 

 island Ravens feed largely on dead rabbits and also visit 

 the slaughter-houses, a habit which has more than once 

 proved fatal to them. 



[Goshawk {Astur palumbarius). — In our Birds of 

 Hampshire Mr. Munn and I had some hesitation about 

 rejecting a record of two of these birds, which were seen 



