202 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Cuckoo {C. canorus). — One hatched out at Ollaberry (Shet- 

 lands) in the second Aveek of August (p. 145). 



Greenland Falcon {F. candicans). — One Flannans (0. 

 Hebrides) March 17th (p. 140). 



King-Eider {S, spectabilis). — ^A drake, Noss Sound, Bressay 

 (Shetlands) June 29th (p. 140). 



Turtle-Dove {T. communis). — One Fair Isle, September 26th 

 (p. 204). 



Baillon's Crake (P. hailloni). — One near Halkirk (Caithness), 

 August 21st (p. 140). 



Dotterel {E. 7norinellus). — One Bute (I. Hebrides). ^lay 

 15th, and one Flannans (0. Hebrides), May 31st (p. 140). 



Green Sandpiper {T. ochropus). — ^Four days in spring and 

 fourteen days in autumn (one to three birds at a time), 

 Fair Isle. One near Halkirk (Caithness), August 18th 

 (p. 141). Rare in north and west Scotland. 



Black-tailed Godwit (L. belgica). — Three Tiree (I. Hebrides), 

 September 7th (p. 141). 



Iceland Gull (L. leucoptenis). — Occurred Flannans (O. 

 Hebrides), in winter (p. 146). 



Great Skua {M. catarrhactes). — Recorded from Unst (Shet- 

 lands) as being seen to " swoop down on a Puffin or 

 Kittiwake on the water, seize it, and hold it under till 

 drowned ; then pluck and eat it, in the manner of the 

 Falcon" (p. 148). 



Arctic Skua {S. crepidatus). — Recorded from Unst as chasing 

 Puffins which rise to a great height and then drop like 

 a stone towards the water when the Skua is upon them. 

 When nearing the Avater the Puffin " shears " along its 

 surface, and on the point of entering it, drops its catch 

 (p. 147). 



Red-necked Grebe (P. griseigena). — Lerwick (Shetlands), 

 one, October 21st, four October 26th (p. 141), 



Golden Oriole in Herefordshire. — An example of 

 Oriolus galhula is reported b}^ Mr. E. Cambridge Phillips in 

 the Field (30.X.191I, p. 775) as having been seen "during 

 the summer," and as late as August 28th, 1911, at Cusop, 

 Herefordshire. 



Scops Owl in Ireland.— Mr. D. C. Campbell reports 

 [Irish Nat., 1911, p. 186) that he received on July 24th, 191 1, 

 a small owl in bad condition from Gallyliffen, co. Donegal. 

 The bird has been identified from one of its Avings by INIr. 

 A. R. Nichols as a specimen of Scops giu. 



