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saw three or four on Craiglush Loch still in breeding plumage. 

 They were busy diving, the dives var3dng from 23 to 32 seconds, 

 about 26 being the average. On Buttersworth Loch on the 

 same day I counted eleven, some in full plumage and others 

 immature. I obtained a very close view of one of the 

 immature birds which, by its size, I judged to be a bird of the 

 year. I unfortunately had no opportunity to search for 

 nests. Charles G. Young. 



GREAT SKUA IN DORSET. 

 A BIRD, which from the detailed description I received from 

 several sources, was evidently a Great Skua {Stercorarius 

 s. skua), was caught by a dog near Abbotsbur\/, on December 

 22nd, 1 92 1. It was surprised while feeding upon a Coot. 

 It was not preserved. This is the first example I have heard 

 of in Dorset since the capture of one near Weymouth, early 

 in Januar5^ 1916 {v. Proceed, of Dorset Nat. Hist. & Antiq., 

 Field Club, 1917, p. 197), but there are several earlier records 

 for the county. F. L. Blathwayt. 



LITTLE AUK IN SHROPSHIRE. 

 .A Little Auk {Alle alle) was found caught in some wires 

 at Wistanstow, Craven Arms, on the 7th December, 1921. 

 The weather was mild and still and the bird in good condition. 

 I have never before known this species to occur here except in 

 severe weather. H. E. Forrest. 



SPOTTED CRAKE IN ANGLESEY. 



Mr. F. H. Mills tells me that a Spotted Crake [Porzana 

 porzana) was shot on a bog with a small lake in it called Hafod- 

 y-llyn, near Rhos-goch, Anglesey, early in October 1921. 

 There are four or five previous records in the county. 



H. E. Forrest. 



White Wagtails in Yorkshire. — The White Wagtail 

 {Motacilla a. alba) is not frequently observed migrating 

 inland and, therefore, it is worth noting that Mr. J. Atkinson 

 records [Nat., 1921, p. 360) seeing a party of twenty to twenty- 

 five at Cookridge, near Leeds, on September loth, 1921 



American Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the Scilly 

 Islands. — Mr. C. J. King kindly sends us photographs of a 

 dead Coccyziis americanus, which was brought to him for 

 identification during the third week in November, 1921. 

 Mr. King sent the bird on to Dr. James Clark, and it has 

 already been recorded in Country Life (24.xii.21, p. 869) and 

 The Field . It was shot while resting on a cottager's chimney 

 at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. 



