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FORK-TAILED PETRELS IN NORTH WALES. 

 On September 30th, 1911, I saw a solitary Leach's Fork- 

 tailed Petrel {Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) pass along at the foot 

 of one of the cliffs of the Great Orme's Head, from which, 

 with my binoculars, I could see the forked tail, the white 

 rump, and also the reddish-brown wing-coverts, which almost 

 converged at a point above the rump. The wind at the time 

 was blowing strongly from the north. Apparently this 

 constitutes the second instance of the occurrence of this bird 

 off the north coast of Carnarvonshire. R. W. Jones. 



On October 6th, 1911, a male Fork-tailed Petrel {Oceanodroma 

 leucorrhoa) was picked up at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 

 and sent for preservation to Shrewsbury, where I examined 

 it. A strong northerly wind was blowing, which accounts, 

 for its occurrence so far inland. This is the first example of 

 the species obtained in Montgomeryshire, although several 

 have been recorded close to the border in Shropshire. 



H. E. Forrest. 



Continental Robin in South-west Scotland. — A speci- 

 men of Erithacus r. rubecula is recorded by Miss A. C. Jackson 

 [Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 245) as taken at the Mull of 

 Galloway Lighthouse on November 2nd, 1910. 



Northern Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Scotland. — 

 A specimen of Dendrocopus m. major is recorded by Miss A. C. 

 Jackson {Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 246) from near 

 Dingwall in October, 1909. Another example of this form is 

 recorded by Miss D. Hamilton {t.c, p. 183) from near Sauchen^ 

 Aberdeenshire in December, 1909. With these should 

 be compared other records for the autumn of 1909, in Volume 

 IV., pp. 286 and 369. 



Wood -Sandpiper in Fifeshire. — Mr. W. Berry records 

 {Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 248) that he noticed, and his 

 companion secured, a female example of Totanus glareola on 

 August 1st, 1911, at the Morton Lochs near Tentsmuir, 

 Fifeshire. The Wood-Sandpiper has seldom been noticed 

 in Scotland, the last record being of one in Fair Isle in 1908. 



Breeding of the Great Black-backed Gull inland 

 in Ireland. — With reference to the notes published under 

 this heading in our last issue (pp. 140-1), Mr. J. Steele Elliott 

 announces {Zool., 1911, p. 388) that he has seen nests of this 

 species on the islands of Lough Aderry and Lough Derryduff, 

 situated between Ardara and Naran in Donegal, and at least 

 in one year on Lough Doon. 



