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Avifauna during the year, under tlie headings of new occur- 

 rences, extensions of breeding range, ringing results, food 

 and other habits, and more particularly migrational move- 

 ments, which occupies more than half the report. 



From Mr. E,. Clyne, the lighthouse-keeper at the Butt 

 of Lewis at the northern end of the Outer Hebrides, we 

 have a report of birds observed. The spot is obviously an 

 important one for witnessing the coming and going of 

 birds which traverse the Outer Hebrides in spring and 

 autumn. Unfortunately the ground is very barren and 

 quite destitute of cover, so that few birds rest there. 



It is interesting to hear of a new breeding place of the 

 Gannet. A few are reported by Mr. J. S. Tulloch to have 

 settled on the Noup of Noss, Bressay. This is a small 

 island lying to the east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. 

 Except for the well-known Bass Rock, all the British nesting 

 places of the Gannet are in western waters. This is therefore 

 a second site on the North Sea. 



Reports from several observers of the deaths of numbers 

 of sea-birds from oil floating on the seas appear in the 

 September number. The birds become coated with oil and 

 are unable to swim or fly and so perish miserably. This 

 has been noticed on the coast of Fife, and is doubtless due 

 to the activities of torpedo destroyers and submarines in 

 those waters. 



The South Australian Ornithologist. 



[The South Australian Ornithologist. Vol. i. 1914 & vol. ii. 1915.] 



The first number of this new journal was noticed in 

 'The Ibis,' 1914, p. 526, and since then we have received 

 seven more numbers, completing two volumes, and we may 

 here briefly summarize their contents. One of the features 

 is a general article in each number on some particular 

 South Australian bird, giving a description and a full 

 account of the distribution and habits. This is done for 

 such birds as Dacelo gig as ivhitei and for Gym7iorhina 

 hypoleuca leuconota. 



