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hawking about high over the fields. Two were about the 

 same place on the next morning, a single bird on the afternoon 

 of the 17th, and two more at sunset. On the 21st one or more 

 were flying over the fields all day. I could find no evidence 

 of nesting, and the birds were, perhaps, visitors from a colony 

 on the mainland. 



In September only two were seen, and these were flying 

 round over the fields on the 5th about 5 p.m. 



The Nightjar {Caprimulgus e. europcBus). 



Twice recorded from the light, a few on June 2nd/3rd, 

 1910, and a' single bird on August 29th/30th, 1913. 



The Wryneck {Jynx t. torqiiilla). 



In September 1913 a Wryneck was taken at the lighthouse 

 on the 5th /6th, and a second was seen on one of the turf 

 walls in the cultivated area on the 6th, looking strangely 

 out of place in such a locality, and a surprising enough record 

 so far west. 



The Cuckoo (Cuculus c. canorus). 



Three times recorded from the light, June 2nd 3rd, 1910, 

 May 8th/9th and August 6th/7th, 1912. Probably a regular 

 double-passage migrant. 



As a summer resident recorded by Mr. Aplin, " several," 

 but not seen by Mr. Coward. In June 1913 one or a pair 

 seen or heard almost daily from the 13th to the 22nd. On 

 the 2ist heard all day up to 9 p.m. On several occasions 

 being chased by Meadow-Pipits, which would, no doubt, be 

 the chief foster-parents. 



Not seen in early September 1913. 



The Peregrine Falcon {Falco p. per:grinus). 



Mr. Aplin saw a male on both the days he was on the island, 

 and concluded from its actions that it had a mate sitting, 

 ^een also by Mr. Coward. In June 1913 a male flew past 

 me at some distance, when I was on the north face on the 

 14th and 19th, but I saw nothing of it on the other two days 

 I was in that locality, nor did I see a female or find any evidence 

 that they had nested on the island in that year. 



On the evening of September 19th a Peregrine was hawking 

 over the southern part of the cultivation and stooped six or 

 eight times within a hundred yards of me, on the last occasion 

 rising with a bird, that looked, through the glasses, like a 

 Meadow-Pipit in his claws. As he hovered, after rising, 



