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certain cases birds are not apparently guided by sighting 

 distant shores, e.g., when flying close to the water and when 

 crossing wide seas at night. Yet there is some evidence to 

 show that birds lose their way in fog, and if this were proved 

 to be the case in migrating birds would it not indicate that 

 sight was not unconnected with direction ? — H.F.W. 



Carrion-Crow Nesting off co. Dublin. — The Hon. 

 Cecil Baring records {Irish Nat., 1920, p. 69) that F. Mason, 

 the gamekeeper on the Island of Lambay, off co. Dublin, 

 states that Corvus c. corone bred there this year (1920). 

 A pair nested at the same place in 1917 (cf. Brit. Birds, 

 XL, p. 141). 



Northern Bullfinch in East Lothian.^ — Mr. A. Cochrane 

 states {Scot. Nat., 1920, p. 89) that amongst some Bullfinches 

 which he received on January loth, 1920, was one with 

 larger and coarser bill and longer wing, which appears to have 

 been an example of Pyrrhula p. pyrrhula. The birds were 

 caught on lime at East Linton, Haddingtonshire. 



Ring-Ouzel in Outer Hebrides. — Mr. F. S. Beveridge 

 writes {Scot. Nat., 1920, p. 93) that a female Ttirdus t. torquatus 

 was killed at the Skillay Lighthouse, Monach, on April 14th, 

 1920, and sent to him. The lightkeeper stated that the 

 next morning he saw two similar birds. The Ring-Ouzel is 

 only a very rare visitor to the Outer Hebrides. 



Dipper in Lincolnshire. — Mr. John Allison sends us a 

 note to the effect that a Dipper (C. cinclus) was seen on 

 Hackthorn Lake on many occasions during a period of three 

 weeks from December 29th, 1919. On further inquiry we 

 learn that it was seen by the Rev. B. J. Boodle and Mr. 

 Cracroft, but unfortunately neither of these gentlemen is 

 able to say to what race the bird belonged. 



Rough-legged Buzzards in Sussex. — Mr. G. Edmund 

 Arnold informs us that on November 8th, 1920, he saw a pair 

 of B. lagopiis between Little Common and Hooe. 



Shovelers Breeding in the Lothians. — Mr. W. Evans 

 states {Scot. Nat., 1920, p. 84) that for a good many years 

 past Spatula clypeata has bred at Threipmuir Reservoir in 

 Midlothian. He first saw Shovelers there in December 1898, 

 a pair in May 1904 were evidently nesting, and nests were 

 found in 1910, 1917 and 1918. At Biel, East Lothian, Mr. 

 Evans saw two drakes, a duck and a brood of ducklings 



