94 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. xiv. 



bassana) nesting on the big " stack " to the M^est of Muckle 

 Flugga. I was with Henrj/ Edwardson at the time, and 

 he told me he had noticed some there last year. There 

 seemed to be about loo pairs on the south side of the " stack " : 

 we could not see the north side. This " stack " is called 

 the " Rumblings." There appeared to be another smaller 

 colony on a " stack " farther to the west, but they were on 

 the north side, and we could only occasionally see the birds 

 rise above the edge of the cliff. This " stack " appears to be 

 called " Humla Stack." Mr. Edwardson, who has spent 

 the summer in his little hut on this remote hill for thirty-one 

 years, says he is certain that Gannets never nested here 

 before during his years of watching. These two colonies, 

 with the small colony on Noss, now of ten pairs, which 

 first appeared in 1915, should in time largely help the Gannet 

 population of the world. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. 



NESTING OF GREAT CRESTED GREBE IN KENT. 



With reference to Mr. Hale's note {ante, pp. 44-5), I may add 

 that a pair of Great Crested Grebes [Podiceps c. cristaius) have, 

 I believe, nested in recent years on the lake at Horsmonden, 

 though I have not been there to see them mj^self . At Eridge, 

 I doubt if more than one pair nested in 1915 and 1916 ; I 

 have not been there since. On the large ponds near East 

 Grinstead, just in Surrey, several pairs seem to breed annually. 

 On the lake at Bedgebury, near Cranbrook, which appears 

 well suited to them, I saw two male birds in March 1918, 

 but they did not stay to nest. H. G. Alexander. 



Although the nesting of this species (P. c. cristaius) 

 on the lake at Hever was first recorded by Mr. Trevor- 

 Battye in 1911, the first pair bred there in 1910. In the 

 following year, when they were recorded as breeding, two 

 pairs nested. Since then the number has varied, as many 

 as five pairs having bred in some years. Although the lake 

 is full of pike, the old birds generally seem to manage to 

 rear at least two young ones. Some of them are remarkably 

 tame, and come close up to the bridge where the high road 

 passes one end of the lake. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. 



[Captain D. H. Meares informs us that Great Crested 

 Grebes nested again this year, in the locality in N. Kent 

 recorded by him, Vol. XIII., p. 59. — Eds.] 



TURTLE-DOVE IN SHETLAND. 



On July 13th, 1920, I saw a Turtle-Dove {Streptopelia t. 

 turtur) at Cambs in Mid YeU. No doubt this bird has often 



