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in June igog. Mr. Evans states that the finding of the 

 nest of the Shoveler in the Lothians has previously been 

 recorded only prior to 1843 (Jardine's Nat. Library, XIV., 

 p. 128). 



Yellowshank in Scilly Isles. — At the October meeting 

 of the British Ornithologists' Club Dr. H. Langton exhibited 

 a female Tringa flavipes which had been shot by Major A. A. 

 Dorrien-Smith on the Little Pool, Tresco, Scilly Isles, on 

 September 2nd, 1920 {Bull. B.O.C., XLI., p. 26). The bird 

 had been observed about the pool for four days previously. 

 This is the sixth example recorded for Great Britain. 



Black Terns near Glasgow. — Mr. D. Macdonald states 

 {Scot. Nat., 1920, p. 84) that he observed two Hydrochelidon 

 nigra hawking over marshes adjoining the River Kelvin on 

 May 4th and 6th, 1920. 



Little Gull off co. Galway. — Prof. C. J. Patten records 

 {Irish Nat., 1920, p. 78) that a wing and foot of a Larus 

 miniitus were sent to him by the lightkeeper at Slyne Head 

 in February 1919. Apparently the bird had fallen victim 

 to a Peregrine Falcon, and its remains in a fresh condition 

 were picked up early in October 1918. There are only about 

 eleven previous occurrences recorded for Ireland. 



LETTERS. 



BREEDING OF THE WOOD-LARK IN SOMERSET. 



To the Editors of British Birds. 



Sirs, — Mr. Stanley Lewis was, no doubt, right in showing Uttle 

 interest in the clutch of Wood-Lark's eggs taken in Somerset twenty 

 years ago [antea, pp. ii6 and 144) as I omitted to give full data. The 

 eggs are in the collection lately presented to the Taunton Castle Museum 

 by Mr. C. R. Gawen, who used to reside at Spring Grove, near Milverton, 

 and the full data from that gentleman's manuscript catalogue of the 

 collection are as follows : " Spring Grove, April 28th, 1900, four eggs ; 

 incubated, birds seen ; hen watched from nest, which was on ground 

 in small turf field close to covert." I may add that the nestlings 

 described by myself (antea, p. 116) were found in Dorset, close to the 

 Somerset boundary, on May 8th, 1920. F. L. Blathwayt. 



Melbury Osmund, Dorchester. 



