188 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. ix. 



slightly made, more like the iie.st of the Ringed Plover, while 

 as can be seen from the photograph reproduced on page 13 

 aniea, the nests that I saw on the Yenesei were solidly built 

 of grass. Maud D. Haviland. 



BLACK-TAILED GODWITS IN SCOTLAND IN 

 SUiVEVIER. 



\\'iiiLE in the north of Scotland (in the Moray area) in June. 

 1914, a friend told me that a pair of Godwits had established 

 themselves on a loch not far from his house : that " they 

 were there when I started trout-fishing " (presumably some 

 time in April), but that during the A\eek then just past, only 

 one of the ])air had been visible. Naturally I felt some slight 

 doubts, but on reaching the place (on Jime 26th) the correct- 

 ness of the report A\"as verified. A single Black-tailed Godwit 

 [Limosa liynosa) in full summer-plumage A\as almost at once 

 descried feeding in some boggy ground adjoining the loch. 

 On being disturbed, after circling round at some distance, 

 it presently flew right over Avhere we stood — five of us — and 

 so near that out host shouted to ask if he should shoot it. 

 That, however, was quite unnecessary, since I could distinguish 

 every detail as clearly as though the bird were in hand, and 

 had previouslv seen these Godwits nesting in West Jutland 

 —as related in the Ibis, 1894, \). 339. There the Godwits 

 were distinctly clamorous, whereas in this instance, so far 

 as I could hear, the bird kept silent. I spent the afternoon 

 at the loch searching the boggy ground in the hope of finding 

 the second Godwit, but only the one single bird showed up. 

 Other matters, followed by the outbreak of war, prevented 

 further attention being paid to the Godwits : hence whether 

 they actually bred there and fledged their yomig remains 

 unproven ; but no Black-tailed (lodwits retui-ned to the loch 

 during the spring of 1915 Abel C'il\pal\n. 



UNUSUALLY LARGE CLUTCH OF MOOR-HEN'S EGGS. 



On May 22nd, 19] 5, I discovered on a small pond in Surrey 

 the nest of a Moor-Hen {Gallimdn ch. chloropus) containing 

 eleven eggs, which A\ou]d appear to be an uniisually large 

 clutch. H. H. Earwig. 



[I have a good many records of nests with ten and eleven 

 eggs, but nests with thirteen, nineteen, twenty-one and twenty- 

 six eggs are on record, so that it is evident that they some- 

 times lay in nn(> another's nests. — F.C.R.J.] 



