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Ness, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, on November 12th, 1913, and 

 sent to the Natural History Museum in the flesh. It may 

 be remarked that three out of the four examples of this 

 species which have been recorded from Great Britain are 

 in the Museum collection. I have already recorded this 

 specimen in Country Life of November 21st. 



W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 



Carrion -Crovs^ roost. — ^Mr. S. E. Brock describes [Scot. 

 Nat., 1913, pp. 188-9) a remarkable " roost " of Corvus c. 

 cor one in a small plantation near the Bathgate Hills. On 

 October 31st he counted seventy-six Carrion-Crows go into 

 the wood, but on November 18tli there were about four 

 hundred, in January, 1913, about three hundred, and in 

 March about five hundred. Mr. Brock states that there 

 are probably not more than sixty nesting pairs in the whole 

 of West Lothian. These birds must therefore be immigrants. 



Eastern Sky-Lark in Ireland. — In Volume V., p. 340, 

 it was mentioned that Professor C. J. Patten had obtained a 

 Sky-Lark at the Tuskar Rock (Wexford) on October 5th, 

 1911. Professor Patten considered it "provisionally" to be a 

 specimen of Alauda a. cantarella, but now announces {Zool.,- 

 1913, pp. 333-6) that he has had it examined by Mr. W. E. 

 Clarke and Dr. E. Hartert, who state that it is an example 

 of Alauda a. cinerea which has been detected twice previously 

 in the British Isles, viz. at the Flannans (0. Hebrides) on 

 February 24th, 1906, and at the Old Head of Kinsale 

 Lighthouse, co. Cork, on October 7th, 1910. Professor Patten 

 gives reasons for supposing that the bird struck the Light 

 on October 1st and had been lying dead upon the roof 

 where he found it on October 5th. We fail to see any 

 good purpose in so long delaying the proper identification 

 of the bird. 



Hoopoe off Caithness. — Mr. G. Bain reports [Scot. Nat., 

 1913, p. 234) that a specimen of Upupa epops came on 

 board a fishing-boat in August about twenty-five miles 

 east of Wick. 



Fulmar breeding in Lewis. — ^Mr. R. Clyne writes [Scot. 

 Nat., 1913, p. 236) that several pairs of Fulmarus g. glacialis 

 w^ere breeding in 1913 near Cellar Head on the east side of 

 Lewis, Outer Hebrides. This appears to have been the 

 third season that they have bred there, but they have not 

 been recorded as breeding on the island before. 



Ringed Plovers nesting under stones. — Mr. H. 

 Laidlaw has found several nests of Charadrius hiaticula on 



