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Red-backed Shrike nesting in Yorkshire. — This species 

 is a rare lurd in Yorkshire, and has seldom nested in the county. 

 Mr. Oxley Grabhani records that a pair nested this year in the 

 Pickering- district and brought off their young (Naturalist, 



1907, p. 325). 



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WooDCHAT IN Oxfordshire. — Mr. C. B. Chambers saw and 

 watched near Fifield, Milton-under-Wychwood, from May 20th 

 to 23rd, 1905, a Woodchat {Lanius 2>omera7ins) (O. V. Aplin, 



Zool, 1907, p. 323). 



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Nesting of the Lesser Tern in North Uist, Outer 

 Hebrides. — Mr. P. F. Eunyard has recorded in the "Field" 

 (September 21st, 1907) the finding of the eggs of a Lesser Tern, 

 Sterna miyiuta, on the north side of North Uist. At a distance 

 the birds were mistaken, curiously enough, for Roseate Terns, 

 but we cannot agree with the Editor of the aljove-mentioned 

 journal that this casts any doubt on the record, since tliere could 

 haA'e been no mistake about the eggs which were found, and 

 when the birds were seen at close quarters they were at once 

 recognized as Lesser Terns. Mr. Bunyard is entirely wrong m 

 supposing that the bird had not been previously recorded as 

 breeding in the Outer Hebrides, since Mr. W. L. MacGillivray 

 found a small nesting colony in Barra in 1902 {Ann. 8.N.H., 

 1902, p. 237), but, according to Mr. N. B. Kinnear, they have 

 not breed there since 1903 (/.c, 1907, p. 85). A colony, well- 

 known to a good many ornithologists, breeds in another of the 

 outer islands and has done so since 1885 or 1886 (rf. J. A. 

 Harvie-Biown, t.c, 1903, p. 16). Mr. Bunyard's record is, 

 howevei", of considerable importance, liecause, as we believe, 

 Nortli Uist is the most north-westerly point at which the Lesser 

 Tern has been found breeding. 



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Weight of Birds' Eggs. — Mr. Nevin H. Foster gives 

 measurements and weights of the eggs of a number of species 

 as supplementary to his pi-evious observations on the subject 

 {Irish Nat., 1907, pp. 315-319). 



