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1910, and sent to him as those of a Snipe. Mr. Bunyard, 

 however, considered that the eggs were undoubtedly those 

 of a Reeve {Machetes 'pugnax). {cf. Bull. B.O.C., Vol. XXVII., 

 p. 17.) 



Ruffs and Spotted Redshanks in East Renfrew. — 

 Mr. J. Robertson records {Glasgow Nat., Vol. II., p. 142) that 

 he saw a pair of Machetes pugnax on August 14th, 1910, and 

 a single bird on August 21st in east Renfrew. On June 26th, 

 1910, he saw a single Totanus fuscus in the same district, 

 and again at the same place on August 14th and 21st, while 

 on August 27th and September 4th he saw three birds of 

 this species, and on September 11th two and September 18th 

 one. 



Spotted Redshank near Aberdeen. — Mr. L. N. G. 

 Ramsay records {Ann. S.N.H., 1910, p. 249) that he saw an 

 example of Totanus fuscus at Donmouth, near Aberdeen, 

 on August 30th, 1910. 



Black-tailed Godwit in Ross-shire. — Miss Annie C. 

 Jackson records {Ann. S.N.H., 1910, p. 247) that she saw a 

 specimen of Limosa helgica at the Cromarty Firtli on March 

 30th, 1910, and again on April 8th, but by April 14th it had 

 departed. 



Black Terns in Surrey. — Half a dozen examples of 

 Hydrochelidon yiigra were observed on August 15th, 1910, at 

 Frensham Pond by Mr. E. C. Arnold {Zool., 1910, p. 393). 



Increase of Breeding Colonies of the Black-headed 

 Gull. — With reference to my note on this subject {supra, 

 p. 182), I regret that I made a mistake with regard to the 

 Dorset colony. Mr. A. Bankes writes me that he knows the 

 colony well and that it is carefully protected. During the last 

 ten or twelve years small offshoots of this colony apjsear to 

 have settled in the surrounding districts, and Mr. Bankes 

 thinks that this has been due to overcrowding in the main 

 colony, where the available nesting-sites are limited. The 

 colony, which had been harried was that near Hurn, five or 

 six miles from the mouth of the Avon (Hants), as I am informed 

 by Mrs. E. D. Leech. Mr. Thornton Mackeith writes that a 

 new colony of some one thousand birds has been discovered 

 in Renfrewshire. — -H.F.W. 



Manx Shearwater in Wiltshire. — A specimen of Puffinus 

 anglorum was picked up at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, " after 

 the great storm on August, 29th, 1910 " (D. P. Harrison, 

 Field, 13. IX. 1910, p. 498). 



