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S.N.H., p. 137). The following we have not previously 

 referred to : — Mull. — One, March 9th. Pentland Skerries. — 

 One, September 24th. Shetlands. — One flew on board 

 a boat twenty miles out on September 26th. North 

 Berwick. — One, October 12th. Gilston (Fife). — One, Novem- 

 ber 4th ; one, November 28th (another is recorded at this 

 place by the Misses Rintoul and Baxter (^.c, p. 180) on April 

 22nd, 1908). Colinsburgh. — Two in November. Auch- 

 nasheen. — One, December 2nd. Another recorded in our 

 pages (Vol. I., p. 263) by the Duchess of Bedford, is not 

 referred to. 



WooDCHAT Shrike in Sussex. — Mr. J. A. Clark records 

 that a male Lanius pomeranus was shot near Rye on September 

 15th, 1907 {Zool., 1908, p. 269). 



Pied Flycatcher Nesting in Ayrshire. — We have 

 omitted to refer to an interesting record of apparently the 

 first breeding of Muscicapa atricapilla in Ayrshire, viz., at 

 Glendoune, in 1907 (cf. M. Young, Ann. S.N.H., 1907, p. 



247). 



Canary Serin in Scotland. — Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown 

 records {Ann. S.N.H., 1908, p. 181) that a specimen of 

 Serinus canarius was captured, in company with Linnets, at 

 Springkerse, near Stirling, at the end of November, 1907. 

 The bird had no appearance of previous confinement, and 

 it was alive and still rather wild on May 29th, 1908. Mr. 

 Harvie-Brown does not actually claim it as a truly wild 

 wanderer, but we wonder if it would be so claimed by anj^one 

 less cautious were it to escape again ! 



Rose-coloured Starling in Scotland. — Major A. 

 Hughes- Onslow writes that he had an excellent view on July 

 2;id last of a specimen of Pastor roseus on some sandy ground 

 near Reay, in Caithness [Field, 11, vii., 08, p. 91). 



Domed Nests of Jackdaws. — Mr. T. T. Mackeith records 

 that he found in May, 1907, in West Renfrewshire, some 

 Jackdaws' nests which were large structures, roofed over with 

 sticks, with a hole large enough to admit the bird. They w^ere 

 built in spruce fir trees {Zool., 1908, p. 232). This reminds 

 us that Mr. W. Wells Bladen has for several years reported 

 the occurrence of similar nests of the Jackdaw in Staffordshire 

 Icf. Trans. N. Staffs. F. Club, 1901). Another domed nest 

 of this bird was found by Mr. C. E. Wright near Kettering 

 [cf. Journ. Norths. N.H. Soc, 1899, p. 174). The Rev. 



