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clear, and I could see that small bubbles adhered to the 

 l)ird'8 feathers while it was beneath the water, giving it a 

 A\hitish appearance. I captured two other young, one in a 

 rabbit hole at the bottom of a gorse bush, and the other in 

 the middle of a stone wall. Both swam with the feet only 

 A\ hen I put them in the water, but neither attempted to dive. 



E. W. Hendy. 



GREAT SKUA IN CARNARVONSHIRE. 



\\'hilst watching seabirds from a rock at the foot of the Great 

 Urme's Head on September 14th, 1915, my attention was 

 attracted by their harsh cries to a party of Terns, which I 

 soon discovered were being harried by a Great Skua {Stercorarius 

 s. skua) a little way out. After having worried them some 

 minutes, the Skua settled on the water, and the Terns dis- 

 appeared. After resting for a few seconds the Skua rose and 

 Mew landward, towards the spot where I was concealed 

 amongst the rocks. A few yards to my left a dozen or so 

 Herring and Black-headed Gulls were, in their usual noisy 

 manner, trying to catch some of the whitebait or other fry 

 M"hich everj' now and again leaped in little shoals above the 

 surface of the water. The Skua, when only some ten or 

 fifteen yards from the cliff, dashed after a Black-headed Gull 

 which had succeeded in catching a fish. Up and down, now- 

 seaward, now landward, they both dashed, until at last the 

 ]iursued yielded up its prize to the pursuer, after which it 

 flew out to sea. I made a point of looldng for the white bases 

 of the wing-feathers. These were not only easily discernible 

 as the Skua followed the Terns, but were seen to great 

 advantage, both on the upper and under sides of each wing, 

 M'hen it chased the Gull. This is the second definite instance 

 of the occurrence of the Great Skua in Carnarvonshire (c/. B.B. , 

 Vol. VI., p. 163). Richard W. Jones. 



Death of Mr. R. M. Barrington. — We greatly regret to 

 hear of the sudden death of Mr. R. M. Barrington, of Fassaroe, 

 Bray, the well-known Irish ornithologist, \\hich occurred 

 while he was driving his car between Dublin and his home. 

 We hope to give some details of Mr. Barrington's life and work 

 in our next number. 



