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Redshank {Tringa totanus). — Increasingly abundant 

 on the Manx shores, now not only in the south. In 

 May 1915 a pair uas evidently nesting (thougli the 

 nest A\as not found) at the Lagagh in Andreas, a jjatch 

 of SManipy ground surrounding the vestiges of an ancient 

 foitification. 



^^ OODCOCK {Scolopax rusticola). — Mr. T. Haddon 

 reports a nest, which hatched out in 1915, in a new 

 locality, the plantation at the head of Glenroy, near 

 Laxey . 



Great Black-backed Gull {TMrus marinus). (See 

 B.B., 1914, p. 315).— In 1914 the nest was again found 

 in the same neighbourhood, and on May 14th contained 

 three eggs. One of the young birds was aften\-ards 

 ringed by Mr. H. Storey. 



Land-Rail {Crex crex). — Mr. Graves tells me that about 

 the end of January 1915 a specimen Avas caught alive at 

 Shenvalla, near Pee], and shown to iMr. C. Kav there. 



