278 BRITISH BIRDS. [von. x1. 
PEREGRINE Fatcon (Falco p.  peregrinus).—Further — 
interesting information about the “‘ Coronation Falcons,” 
whose due presentation was the condition of the feudal 
tenure of Man, is given by Mr. Wood in the above-mentioned 
article. From Nowell’s letter it appears that a falconer 
was kept, and the places of the hawk’s resort carefully 
watched. 
PinkK-FooteD Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)—On March 
Ist, 1916, during a spell of biting weather, Mr. Wm. Kissack 
shot a specimen on a small dam at Ronaldsway. It was a 
solitary bird, the first recorded for Man, and has been given 
by Mr. Kissack to the Isle of Man Natural History and 
Antiquarian Society. The pink of the bill and feet was finely 
developed. 
TEAL (Anas c. crecca).—Mr. W. E. Cottier found a nest with 
eight eggs in the Ballaugh Curragh in 1916. There are few 
records of its breeding, which however is probably regular, 
though in small numbers. 

Turrep Duck (Nyroca fuligula)—This species, previously 
very rarely recorded in the Island, must have occurred rather 
frequently in the winter of 1916-17. On February 9th a 
fine drake was shot by Mr. T. E. Jefferson, out of a party of 
three, on a quarry “dub” near Ballasalla. On February 
4th I found the skeleton and wings of a picked specimen in 
the Lhen valley, and a little later several times saw a living 
specimen on a pool in the same neighbourhood. In a case 
of local birds given to the Manx Museum by Lieut.-Col. Geo. 
Moore in 1915 is another fine male, shot in the neighbourhood 
of Castletown. 
Common TERN (Sterna hirundo) (see British Birds Vol. V, pp. 
80, 303). In July 1917, at another locality not far distant from 
that mentioned by Mr. Wenner, Mr. C. H. Wells, who photo- 
graphed the birds from a tent, was able to ascertain that a 
small Tern colony consisted of this species. This colony, 
Mr. Wells states, was thinly scattered over a considerable 
space, where Lesser Terns also were breeding. On July 
24th-26th when Mr. Wells visited the place, only one Common 
Tern’s nest contained three eggs, all the others two. 
LirtLe TERN (Sterna a. albifrons).—In 1914 the colony had 
shifted about a mile, to a sand and gravel bank where Arctic 
Terns were breeding amid the coarser shingle, but the smaller 
birds nested principally in the bare sand, forming simple 
hollows without lining. On July 6th there were many such 
nests with eggs. Some nested here again in 1915 and probably 

