NOTES. 318 



POMATORHINE SKUA IN LANCASHIRE. 



An adult female Pomatorhine Skua {Stercorarms pomatorhinus) 

 was killed with a stone near Cockersand Light, Lancashire, on 

 November 28th, 1908. 



I may also mention that an adult male was shot near 

 Graemsay Lighthouse, Orkney, on November 4th, and an 

 immature male at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on November 

 17th. Fred. Smalley. 



TWO NORFOLK LEVANTINE SHEARWATERS. 



Mr. H. N. Pashley, of Cley, Norfolk, has kindly sent me 

 word of two Levantine Shearwaters which were shot by 

 George Long (a local wildfowler) on September 22nd, 1891, 

 on the bar at Blakeney. One of these birds is in the collection 

 of Mr. E. M. Connop, of Wroxham, who permits me to record 

 it, and the other is in the collection of Mr. Percy Evershed, 

 of Norwich, and both have been examined by Mr, T. 

 Southwell. Mr. Pashley states that both birds were seen by 

 Howard Saunders and Lt.-Col. H. W. Feilden, and were 

 pronounced by the former to be true Levantines. It may 

 have been due to a slip that they were not referred to in the 

 second edition of the " Manual," but in any case their history 

 and identification seem perfectly satisfactory. 



H. F. Withers Y. 



Black Redstart in the Outer Hebrides and in Fife. — 

 On November 6th, 1908, the Duchess of Bedford saw a speci- 

 men of Ruticilla titys, a scarce visitor to Scotland, on South 

 Uist {Ann. S.N.H., 1909, p. 4). On October 22nd, 1908, a 

 fine male was seen at Balcomie, Fife, by the Misses Rintoul 

 and Baxter {t.c, p. 49). 



Garden- Warbler at Sule-Skerry (N.W. of Orkney). — 

 On September 22nd, 1908, a specimen of Sylvia hortensis was 

 taken at the Sule-Skerry Lighthouse (W. Eagle Clarke, Ann. 

 S.N.H., 1909, p. 48). 



Red-breasted Flycatcher in Barra, and at the Butt 

 OF Lewis. — On November 3rd, 1908, while at Barra, the 

 Duchess of Bedford saw^ a small brown bird w^hich, coming 

 well into view, was seen to have the basal half of the tail 

 white with the exception of the centre feathers, which were 

 dark. It thus became clear that the bird was either a 

 female or young male Muscicapa parva {Ann. S.N.H., 

 1909, p. 3). Although of late years Mr. Eagle Clarke 

 has recorded several of these birds from Fair Isle, only 

 two other instances (one at the Monarch Lighthouse 

 in 1893, and the other at the Bell Rock on October 25th, 

 1907) of its occurrence in Scotland were known. Mr. Robert 

 Clyne, who obtained the bird at the Bell Rock, now^ writes 



