420 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Sooty Tern (Vol. II., p. 308). — The specimen figured in 

 the " Manual " was not shot as there stated (p. 653) but killed 

 with a stone (F. C. R. Jourdain, in litt.). 



Little Gull (Vol. II., p. 328). — Ireland. — An adult in winter 

 plumage was killed about March 7th, 1909, near Laytow^n, 

 CO. Meath (R. M. Barrington, Irish Nat., 1909, p. 99). 



Great and Lesser Black-backed Gulls (S. pages 675 

 and 677). — Scotla7id. — Mr. Evans brings forward much evi- 

 dence to prove that the naturalists Avho visited the Bass Rock 

 during the first half of last century w^ere unanimous in 

 regarding the Black-backs that then bred there as Larus 

 marinus, and that since about 1860, L. fuscus alone has been 

 ascertained to nest there. The early ornithologists, however, 

 left beliind no conclusive evidence that their identification 

 was correct (W. Evans, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edin., Vol. XVL, 

 pp. 42-51). 



Glaucous Gull (Vol. II., p. 328). — Ireland. — In addition 

 to those mentioned, the following occurrences supplied by 

 Mr. Ussher do not appear to have been recorded : — 1900, 

 November 16th, co. Kerry ; 1901, March 19th, co. Mayo ; 

 April 2nd, co. Kerry ; 1904, January 25th, co. Donegal ; 

 February 9th, co. Wicklow ; March 3rd, co. Donegal ; March 

 15th, CO. Donegal ; December 2nd, co. Mayo ; 1905, December 

 15th, CO. Mayo ; 1906, December 27th, locality uncertain 

 {fide Williams and Sons) ; 1907, March 31st, co. Donegal {fide 

 W. A. Hamilton) ; January 11th, co. Mayo (in National 

 Museum). This last may be the same bird as that recorded 

 from Bartragh on December 8th, 1906 (c/. supra, p. 329), since 

 the date here given is the date of the Museum register. 



Iceland-Gull (Vol. II., p. 329). — Ireland. — ^Mr. Ussher gives 

 us particulars of eleven obtained (many others have been 

 seen), and amongst them we may note one from co. Galway 

 on April 21st, 1906, and one from co. Londonderry on April 

 20th, 1903 (/. Nat., 1903, p. 198), in addition to the late 

 occurrences already mentioned. 



KiTTivv^AKE Gull (S. page 683). — Scotland. — There are now 

 considerably over 100 pairs breeding on the St. Abb's Cliffs. 

 First noticed there about a dozen years ago (W. Evans, in 

 litt.). 



Great Skua (Vol. II., p. 330). — Holyhead record should 

 have been under North Wales, not Ireland. An adult 

 obtained on the River Shannon at Portumna, in October, 

 1906, is in Mr. C. J. Carroll's collection (R. J. Ussher, in litt.). 



