VOL. xiii.] NOTES. Ill 



VELVET-SCOTERS IN SUMMER OFF 

 CARNARVONSHIRE. 



From an ex-coastwatcher's hut on the Great Orme's Head, 

 I got an excehent view on August 4th, 1919, of a flock 

 of five Velvet -Scoters {Oidemia f. fiisca). They flew in an 

 easterly direction, that is, towards Liverpool Bay. The 

 white patch on each wing showed up very clearly. The 

 occurrence suggests that, in addition to the large numbers 

 of non-breeding Common Scoters {0. n. nigra) which annually 

 " summer " off the North Wales coast, a few non-breeding 

 Velvet -Scoters, too, occasionally summer in that part of the 

 Irish Sea. Richard W. Jones. 



ROCK-DOVE ABSENT FROM CHEDDAR CLIFFS. 



In the Zoologist, 1903, pp. 108, 230, I recorded the breeding 

 of the Rock-Dove {Cohimha I. livia) at Cheddar Cliffs, Somer- 

 set. This statement was based on information supplied by 

 Mr. West, of Cheddar, but I am now satisfied that it is 

 erroneous. I am now residing at Cheddar and find that the 

 Rock-Dove is altogether absent, but on the other hand the 

 Stock-Dove [Colnmba cenas) is plentiful and breeds freely in 

 the cliffs. Stanley Lewis. 



SANDWICH TERN BRED ON FARNE ISLANDS 

 RECOVERED IN CUMBERLAND. 



On July 15th, 1919, I found in a colony of Sandwich Terns 

 {Sterna s. sandvicensis) at Ravenglass, Cumberland, a dead 

 bird, bearing on its leg ring No. 83020. 



The bird was marked as a nestling on July i6th, 1914, at 

 the Fame Islands, Northumberland, by Miss R. Pease. The 

 bird had no doubt bred at Ravenglass, and the recovery is 

 interesting, in showing that the species does not always 

 return to its parent colony to nest. H. W. Robinson. 



GoDMAN Memorial. — A strong committee has been formed 

 under the chairmanship of Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., to 

 establish a memorial to the late Frederick Du Cane Godman, 

 F.R.S. It has been decided that the memorial shall take, 

 primarily, the form of a bronze tablet with medallion portraits 

 of Godman and Salvin, and that this tablet, with a suitable 

 inscription, should be offered to the Trustees of the British 

 Museum, to be placed in the Natural History Museum. 



The Committee hope to be in a position to do something 

 additional to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Godman, by 



