338 BRITISH BIRDS. 



on the 20th (pp. 283, 285). Then came the bhzzard of 

 February 1st and 2nd which SAvept great numbers on to the 

 English coasts, while during the week or so following they were 

 picked up, as our records witness, in all parts of the country, 

 including, and north and east of, the counties of Sussex, Surrey, 

 Buckingham, Gloucester, Worcester, Shropshire, Cheshire, 

 and Lancashire. — H.F.W. 



Westmorland. — On February 8th a male just dead was 

 found on the moor at Kirkby Lonsdale. On February 7th a 

 keeper saw about thirty flying across the moor in a S.S.E. 

 direction. They passed quite close to him (Hulme Wilson). 



Derbyshire. — One at Sawley Common on January 25th 

 and one at Shardlow on February 18th. At least a dozen 

 were taken in the county between January 25th and February 

 18th (F. C. R. Jourdain). 



Staffordshire. — One at Freeford Hall, Lichfield, on 

 January 20th (J. R. B. Masefield). 



Nottinghamshire. — Seventeen j)icked up in the county, 

 all on the high roads (J. Whitaker, Field, 30.III.1912, p. 647). 



Essex. — One alive on the water near Foulness Island, 

 February 8th (F. J. Stubbs, ZooL, 1912, p. 157). 



FULMARS BREEDING IN ORKNEY. 

 With reference to the notes on this subject {antea, pp. 198, 

 228, 287), I was on the west coast of the mainland (at Birsay), 

 in 1908, and then made inquiries about the Fulmar, and from 

 what I could learn then there were a few at Stromness, and a 

 colony at Costa Head. I saw two flying near the Brough 

 of Birsay. In 1910 I found a small colony on the cliffs to 

 the north of Marwdck Head, and in 1911 there was a con- 

 siderable increase there. W. J. Balfour Kirke. 

 [Several pairs were recorded as breeding at the Black Crag- 

 near Stromness in 1907, see Vol. II., p. 374, but I did not see 

 any there in 1908.— N.F.T.] 



UNCOMMON OCCURRENCES IN WEST SOMERSET. 



Chiffchaff {Phylloscopus rufus). — One was shot at Black- 

 ford on January 16th, 1912, and another on March 4th. 



Crossbill {Loxia curvirostra). — A female was picked uj) 

 in Blackford in the autumn of 1897 (?). It had sustained 

 injuries to one of its wings. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker {Dendrocopus major). — A 

 pair visited Blackford in the autumn of 1905. D. rtmior is 

 fairly plentiful in the neighbourhood. 



Little Owl {Athene noctua). — A female was shot at East 

 Cranmore (East Somerset), on December 14th, 1911. 



