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to time. When dealing with Hampshire we expected to find 

 mention of F. G. Aflalo's Half a Century of Sport in Hampshire : 

 being extracts from the shooting Journals of James Edward, 

 second Earl of Malmesbitry: (The "Country Life" Library 

 of Sport), 1905. As regards Dumfriesshire, some of the 

 references given refer strictly to Kirkcudbright and to Cumber- 

 land, and the papers by Mr. Robert Service : " The Solitary 

 Snipe in Sol way District " ; " Pied Flycatcher in Dumfries- 

 shire " appeared in Ann. Scott. N. H., 1897, p. 124 and p. 249, 

 and not in Nat. Chron. Mr. R. Armstrong's note on " Pied 

 Flycatcher in Mid-Nithsdale " is to be found in Ann. Scott. 

 N. H., 1898, p. 49 ; not in Nat. Chron. There is no mention 

 of Mr. H. Goodchild's " Wild Birds about Hoddam Castle " 

 {Avic. Mag., Dec, 1909 ; pp. 52-8) nor of Mr. John Corrie's 

 Glencairn {Dumfriesshire) The Annals of an Inland Parish, 

 1910, in which there is a list of local birds on pp. 180-5. 



It may be regretted that the " addenda " on pp. 554-558, 

 have not been printed on one side of the paper only, as 

 was done in the case of A Bibliography of British Ornithology ; 

 this would have enabled these addenda to be cut up and 

 inserted as slips in their appropriate places in the body of 

 the book. It only remains to again congratulate the authors, 

 and at the same time we express the most earnest hope that, 

 since the Bibliography of British Ornithology has now been 

 so faithfully dealt with up to date, periodical additions may 

 from time to time be published. H.S.G. 



LETTER. 



BREEDING OF THE WOOD-LARK IN SOMERSET. 



To the Editors of British Birds. 



Sirs, — I thank Mr. Blathwayt for pointing out (antea, p. 116) that 

 a wrong impression might be conveyed by my note (p. 91) on this 

 subject, but I do not think there is cause for much anxiety. 



I did not intend it to be a history of the distribution of the species, 

 so said nothing of occurrences, nor of the results obtained from the 

 considerable time I have spent in hunting for it. Like him, I have 

 also received many reports of its presence dating back to 1883, and 

 there is little doubt that it has bred for many years past ; at the same 

 time, I hope I am entitled to some credit for being the first during this 

 long time to furnish any account of its breeding. At the last county 

 ornithological meeting Mr. Blathwayt informed some of the members, 

 including myself, that he had never found the nest in Somerset, but 

 had done so in an adjacent county ; from this we must infer that the 

 four young described by him do not refer to Somerset. I mention this 

 to avoid another wrong impression being left. The set of eggs taken 

 twenty years ago and marked Somerset do not interest me very much. 

 Cheddar, Somerset. Stanley Lewis. 



