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ON THE MORE IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO OUR 

 KNOWLEDGE OF BRITISH BIRDS SINCE 1899. 



BY 



H. F. WITHERBY and N. F. TICEHUEST. 



Part VII. 



(Continued frvm jjage 256.) 



SWIFT Cypselus apus (L.). S. page 261. 



SciLLY. — An occasional spring migrant ; but has never been 

 Tinown to nest (J. Clark and F. R. Rodd, ZooL, 1906, p. 297). 



Number of eggs. — Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain gives good evidence 

 (i.e., 1901, p. 286) that three eggs form a normal clutch, and 

 Rev. Allan Ellison states {t.c, p. 384) that an examination 

 of some dozens of nests lead him to the conclusion that three 

 eggs is the usual number, perhaps more usual than two. 



Incubatio7i 'period. — Reckoned at eighteen days at least 

 (J. Steele-Elliott, t.c, p. 473). 



ALPINE SWIFT Cypselus melha (L.). S. page 263. 



Kent. — A bird was shot at Bromstone, St. Peters, Thanet, 

 •on October 21st, 1902 (H. S. D. Byron, Field, 1902, p. 761). 



Yorkshire. — Seven are recorded in all for Yorkshire, 

 several apparently for the first time {B. Yorks., Vol. I, p. 265). 



WRYNECK lynx torquilla L. S. page 271. 



Shetland. — Unst. — A male captured ahve, September 

 2nd, 1903 {Ann. S.N.H., 1904, p. 210). Fair Isle.— One 

 observed September 3rd, 1906 {t.c, 1907, p. 78). 



SciLLY. — A rare casual visitor ; only four are recorded ; 

 the last in April, 1904 (J. Clark and F. R. Rodd, ZooL, 1906, 

 p. 297). 



Isle of Man. — One at Abbey Lands, Ouchan, in 1876 

 {B. Isle of Man, p. 114). 



GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER Dendrocopus major 

 (L.). S. page 275. 



Scotland. — The appearance of this bird as a breeding 

 species during the last few years in districts ^^•here it had not 

 previously been recorded, especially in the south-east, is 

 interesting when taken in conjunction A\'ith its apparently 

 uneven distribution in Scotland. 



Kircudbright and Dumfries. — Heard from February-April 

 (? 1906) (R. Service, Ann. S.N.H., 1907, p. 112). Roxburgh- 



Erraium. — Under Nutcracker (supra p. 254), Ilkley was put under 

 the heading of Cheshire instead of Yorkshire. 



