OG BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. xiv. 



ho])c to sec both species again fully established in the Isles 

 of Scilly. 



The Common Guillemots {Urici t. troille) arc also going, 

 thanks to the destruction of their eggs by the big Gulls. 

 In the eastern group, a few pairs nest on Menewethen, but 

 it is almost confined to the islands of Gorregan and Roseven, 

 in the western group. This species used to nest in large 

 numbers in Scilly, but is becoming scarcer every year. Even 

 in 191 1 it still maintained fair numbers, but in 1914 had 

 become very scarce indeed. Very few of the eggs hatch 

 out, for exposed as they usually are in the open, uiilike those 

 of many of the other species, they are broken and eaten 

 wholesale by the big Gulls as soon as deposited. 



On Roseven in 1914 these Gulls broke eggs deliberately 

 not five yards from where I was standing, so much so, that 

 I immediately left the island in the hope that the owners 

 would sit down and protect those that remained. Herring- 

 Gulls {Lams a. argentaUis) were the worse culprits. I did 

 not land on Gorregan, fearing that the same thing might 

 happen, but as I sailed past, the glasses failed to show a 

 single Guillemot on its ledges. 



The Peregrine Falcons (Falco p. peregrinus) have deserted 

 the eastern group, thanks to human egg-destroyers, but 

 thanks also to constant watching, manage to survive in the 

 west. In 1914 the pair of birds were both young, and the 

 nestlings very undersized : moreover, the eyrie was so situated 

 that there was a strong up-draught. On top of all this, came 

 a night of intense cold during which the unfortunate brood 

 perished. H. W. Robinson. 



GUILLEMOT IN STAFFORDSHIRE. 



A Common Guillemot {Uria t. troille) was picked up alive, 

 but injured, underneath telegraph wires near Stone, Stafford- 

 shire, on Mav 19th, 1920, and it afterwards died. On dissec- 

 tion it proved to be an adult male, and was in full nuptial 

 plumage. This makes the third authenticated record of the 

 occurrence of the Guillemot in this county. Previous records 

 are : June 2Sth, 1889, and June 1901, both recorded from 

 Gailey Pools, per Mr. W. Leonard Ward (see North Staffs. 

 Field Club Transactions, Vol. XL., pp. 49 and 52, 1905-6). 



B. Bryan. 



Jays and Woodcocks in Holland.^ — Referring to his 



Norfolk Report for 1919 (Vol. XIIL, p. 250), Mr. J. H. Gurney 



writes that he has heard from Baron Snouckaert, of Doom, 



that Jays {Garnilus g. glandarius) and Woodcocks {Scolopax 



