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publicity for this case in the South African press, and I am 

 hopeful that this may lead to further records being brought 

 to light. 



The following table shows at a glance the South African 

 records of Swallows : — 



H. F. WlTHERBY. 



WRYNECK IN WESTMORLAND. 



As the Wryneck {Jynx t. torquilla) has been extinct in 

 Westmorland for nearly seventy years, it may be of interest 

 to record that a bird was seen in Dallam Tower Park, Miln- 

 thorpe, on April 4th this year. Mr. H. W. Robinson recorded 

 two for N. Lancashire in the Zoologist (1908, p. 428), the 

 dates being September and October of that year, and the 

 only other record of recent years for that county is one 

 observed near Burnley on August 30th, 1905. 



Eighty to a hundred years ago the Wryneck was quite 

 a common nesting species in south Westmorland, especially 

 in the Witherslack Valley, but thanks to the systematic 

 robbing of the nests by egg-collectors it soon became extinct. 



E. U. Savage. 



[As the disappearance of this species has been general 

 throughout Lancashire and Lakeland, and was noted seventy 

 years ago, when there was no systematic collecting, it is 

 difficult to see why it should be ascribed to this cause. Prob- 

 ably, as Macpherson suggests, it was always local, and its 

 decrease, like that of the Wood-Lark, seems to be due to 

 natural causes. T. C. Heysham (1791-1857) was probably 

 the only collector in the district in the early part of the 

 nineteenth century. — F. C. R. Jourdain.] 



INCUBATION OF STORM-PETREL. 

 In connection with Mrs. Gordon's most interesting article 

 on the nesting of the Storm-Petrel [Hydrohates pelagicus) 



