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Black Redstart in Somerset. — Mr. Norman G. Hadden 

 reports seeing a Phoenicurus ochrurus gibraliariensis at 

 Porlock, on March 26th, 1922. 



Hoopoe in Aberdeenshire. — Mr. W. Wilson records 

 [Scot. Nat., 1 92 1, p. 178), that a Upupa epobs was obtained 

 at Clashnadarrock early in October T921. 



Wryneck in Midlothian. — An example of Jynx t. 

 torquilla, a very scarce passage-migrant in East Scotland, was 

 captured on August 27th, 1921, near Musselburgh (C. Sykes, 

 Scot. Nat., 1921, p. 158.) 



Little Owl in Northumberland. — " G. J. C." states 

 {Field, Nov. 12, 1921, p. 635) that he killed a specimen of 

 Athene noctua at Bingfield on May 29th, 1919, that he is 

 well acquainted with the bird in the south of England and 

 that he notified the fact to Mr. Abel Chapman. We know of 

 no recent occurrence of the Little Owl in Northumberland. 



Iceland Falcon at Sule Skerry. — Dr. W. Eagle Clarke 

 states {Scot. Nat., 1921, p. 185) that an adult male Falco r. 

 islandiis arrived on Sule Skerry (Orkney) during a north- 

 westerly gale on January 19th, 1921. The bird was exhausted 

 and captured. 



Pink-footed Geese in North Uist. — Mr. G. Beveridge 

 states {Scot. Nat., 1921, p. 158) that a flock of forty Anser 

 hrachyrhynchus was seen feeding in the machar on North 

 Uist on the evening of May 4th, 1921. They were very 

 restless and departed the same night. Except for two birds 

 on the Flannans in April 191 1, the previous occurrence of 

 this species in the Outer Hebrides has been doubtful. 



Great Snipe in Ayrshire. — Mr. A. Fairbairn states 

 {Scot. Nat., 1921, p. 185) that a male Gallinago media was shot 

 on September 8th, 1921, at Muirkirk. 



Common Tern in Scotland in Winter. — Dr. W. E. 

 Collinge reports {Scot. Nat., 1921, p. 133), that he has received 

 the following remarkable number of examples of Sterna 

 hirundo during late autumn and winter, viz. : October 1920, 

 eight from different parts of the east coast of Scotland ; 

 November 1920, four ; December ■ 1918, two from near 

 Aberdeen; December 1919, one from near St. Andrews; 

 December 1920, five from different parts of the east coast ; 

 January 1919 one and January 1920 one from near St. 

 Andrews ; February 1920, two from Aberdeen and two from 

 near St. Andrews. Except for one of the October birds nil 

 were adults. 

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