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 MANX ORMTIIOLOGR'AL NOTES: Ji)14-15. 



BY 



P. G. RALFE. 



The folloAvhig notes continue tbe island's record iji the 

 article in British Birds, Vol. VII., pp. 313-15. 



Chough {Pyrrhocorax pyrrJiocorax). — The site in tbe 

 mine- working (B.B. 1912, p. 301) is still yearly occupied. 

 The building illustrated in BInJs of the Isle of Man (p. 314) 

 having been demolished, its nesting-pair (probably) 

 established itself about a mile higher up the same valley, 

 in a group of ruined mine-buildings. In 1915 the nest 

 was in a wheel-case at the end of the group, in a hole in 

 one of the walls, some fifteen feet from the bottom, and 

 only two or three from the top. On May 22 it contained 

 four eggs easily seen from the opposite wall, but on going 

 to photograph it on the 24th, it had been robbed and 

 pulled (uU. This nest was rather slight : the hole was 

 shallow, and singularly ea,sy of access. 



Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra). — The captive bird, 

 probably of Manx biith, mentioned in Birds of the Isle of 

 Man (p. 73) as taken near Ramsey in July, 1901, lived till 

 September 3rd, 1915. During these fourteen years its 

 plumage chajiged very little, Mr. Graves tells me, but 

 it sang till abovit a year before its death. 



MiSTLE- Thrush {Timhis v. viscivoriis). — Mr. J. B. Keig 

 has shown me another of this bird's curious Manx nesting- 

 sites. In 1915 there was a nest at Ballacarn. Ballaugh. 

 on the rail of a cart, one of a row standing in the farm- 

 yard. It hatched out successfully. There are trees 

 close to the spot. 



Redstart (Phaniciirus ph. phanicurvs). — Oji Sejv 

 tember 17th. 1915, Mr. F. S. Graves saw a specimen, 

 female or immature, at Ballaquane, near Peel. 



DiPPEK (Ciyiclus cinclus). — In November 1915 one A\as 

 killed by striking a telc])hone wire at the '" Iron Bridge "' 

 in the toA\n of (-astletown. 



