NOTES. 425 



that the Chaffinches built the nest in December, and were 

 constantly about it during January and February, and that 

 the hen brooded upon it. Beyond that nothing is certainly 

 known, and it is extremely doubtful if a brood could have 

 been reared successfully for lack of suitable food. 



H. E. Forrest. 



RED GROUSE AND BLACK GROUSE HYBRIDS. 



In the third Hne of Mr. Ogilvie-Grant's note on this subject 

 {supra, p. 386) the name "Glen Troot" should be "Glen 

 Trool." Two specimens of a similar hybrid obtained on the 

 borders of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire, recorded in 

 the " Field " at the time, may be seen in the Tulhe House 

 Museum, Carhsle. Another specimen, obtained near Kirk- 

 connel (Dumfriesshire), is in the possession of the gentleman 

 who shot it, and is now in Glasgow. These examples will 

 be duly referred to in my book on the " Birds of Dumfries- 

 shire," which it is hoped will shortly be pubhshed. 



Hugh S. Gladstone. 



NESTING RECORDS OF THE KITTIWAKE IN THE 



ISLE OF WIGHT. 

 Mr. p. W. Munn and I, in our " Birds of Hampshire," recorded 

 a Kitti wake's egg, as picked up under the Culver Chffs, Isle 

 of Wight, in 1903. Mr. R. H. Fox, of Shankhn, now writes 

 to me that Mr. G. T. Woods, the finder of the egg, after con- 

 sultation with Mr. H. F. Poole, considers it to be a dwarfed 

 egg of the Herring- Gull. 



This puts back the nesting of the Kittiwake in the Isle of 

 Wight for many years, and it would be interesting to know the 

 date of any authentic specimens in local collections. 



J. E. Kelsall. 



BRiJNNICH'S GUILLEMOT IN THE FIRTH OF FORTH. 



A FEMALE specimen of Brimnich's Guillemot {Uria bruennichi) 

 was picked up dead on the shore at Craigielaw Point, on the 

 Haddingtonshire coast of the Firth of Forth, on December 

 nth, 1908, and was sent to the Royal Scottish Museum by 

 Mr. Valentine Knight. Judging by the size of the bill, which 

 measures along the curve of the culmen only 1*2 inches, Mr. 

 Clarke considers the specimen a bird of the year (W. Eagle 

 Clarke, Ann. S.N.H., 1909, pp. 75 and 76). Mr. Clarke is, 

 however, mistaken in stating that since 1895 " no other 

 specimen has been detected either in British waters or on 

 our shores," for two have since been procured off the 

 Yorkshire coast, and another, if correctly identified, has been 

 seen off the Fame Islands (c/. supra, p. 331). 



