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and XIV.. p. 49). This Petrel breeds on the islands of the 

 Madeira and Canary groups, and is also found in the middle 



Bulwer's Petrel, picked up near Winchelsea, Sussex, on 

 September 4th, 1908. 



of the Pacific in the Hawaiian group, as well as in the Bonin 

 and Volcano Islands far to the soutli-east of Japan. H.F.W. 



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Wrynecks in North Lancashire. — An example of hjnx 

 torqiiilla was captured alive on September 3rd, and anoth r 

 on October 2nd, 1908, near Lancaster. At one time tuc; 

 Wryneck seems to have nested in Lancashire, but it now rarely 

 visits the county (H. W. Robinson, ZooL, 1908, p. 428). 



HoNEY-BuzzARD IN ENGLAND. — The Rcv. F. L. Blathwayt 

 records that two were shot near Grantham and one near 

 Lincoln between September 24th and October 5%, 1908 

 {Zool., 1908, p. 428). On September 26th an immature bird 

 was shot near Oldham (F. Stubbs, Nat., 1908, p. 456). One 

 was shot near Beccles and another near Great Yarmouth ( ? in 

 September), (B. Dye, Zool,, 1908, p. 468). 



Lincolnshire and Somersetshire Heronries. — The Rev. 

 F. L. Blathwayt gives some interesting particulars of these 

 {Zool, 1908, p. 450). 



Nesting of the Scaup-Duck in Scotland. — Correction. — 

 The nest found by Captain (now Colonel) R. Sandeman and 

 Mr. Heatley Noble was in Sutherlandshire, as mentioned on 

 page 85 {supra), and not in Speyside, as stated by Mr. P. H. 

 Bahr on page 211. 



