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and six Grey Crows, feeding in company in a field 

 near Ballamoar. 

 Rook {Corvus frugilegus). — Graves notes two occupied 

 Rook's nests in 1910 in " Monkey Puzzles " (Chilian 

 Pine) at Ballagarraghyn (German). There are 

 Rookeries (not mentioned in Ralfe's list) at Tosaby 

 (Malew), Ballakilley (Rushen), very small and recent, 

 and Stockfield (German). Mr. T. Cubbon, who called 

 attention to the last-mentioned, names another at 

 Cooil Injil (Marown) which existed at the date of 

 Ralfe's list, but has since become extinct. 



Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). — So little is known about 

 Manx foster-parents of the Cuckoo, other than the 

 Meadow-Pipit, that it may be worth mentioning 

 that Mr. Wenner found a young bird in the nest of 

 a Sedge- Warbler in Greeba Curragh in 1911. 



Hen-Hakrier (Circus cyaneus). — The first known Manx 

 occurrence is recorded in British Birds, Vol. III., 

 p. 338. 



Gadwall (Anas strepera). — On November 6th, 1911, a 

 male in fine plumage was shot by Mr. E. Turner 

 on the tide-pools at Lang Ness : the second Manx 

 record. 



Stock-Dove (Colmnba oenas). — Seems to be increased in 

 numbers, both in summer and winter. Mr. F. A. 

 Craine reports nests at Clay Head ; Graves saw twenty 

 to thirty coming in to roost in September, 1911, in 

 plantations near St. Johns. Most of those he has 

 shot were birds of the year. 



Purple Sandpiper (Triyiga maritima). — Mr. H. Mackenzie 

 tells Ralfe that when he was stationed at the Chickens 

 Rock Light, a party of these birds regularly visited 

 the rock (nearly a mile from shore) when uncovered 

 by the tide, during the period between August and 

 . December. 



Common Sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucus). — Graves had 

 for years observed this species y\hen fishing at the 

 Reservoir in West Bakhvin, but was not able to 

 find a nest until June 5th, 1910, when he discovered 

 one on a bracken-clad bank close to the water, with 



