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Addenda and Corrigenda. 



THE COMMON GULL. As regards a complaint in 1852 of 

 the damage done to the turnip crops in Berwickshire by this 

 species, Sir William Jardine wrote : — " In our own district, at 

 a distance in a direct line of about twelve miles from the sea, 

 the Common Gull, since we can remember, during winter and 

 spring, daily wends its way inland considerably farther than 

 our locality, and as regularly may be seen returning toward 

 evening in its wedge-formed groups. These during the fore- 

 noon frequent the fallows, and often follow the plough ; but 

 their chief resort is the pasture land, and their chief, almost 

 only food is worms or snails, etc. We have never heard of 

 or suspected their attacking turnips or other vegetable pro- 

 duce.i"' 



THE POMATORHINE SKUA. The two specimens " obtained 

 in Gretna parish in 1892 " (p. 444) are now in Tullie House 

 Museum, Carlisle. ^'^ 



THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. My statement that this .species 

 nests in "precipitous cliffs" (p. 452) is misleading. It nests 

 in some places on low rocky islands, but is not known to breed 

 within the limits of Dumfriesshire. 



14 Contributions to Ornithology, 1852, p. 40. 



15 Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, Nov. 6tli, 1908. 



