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Williams {Irish Nat., 1909, p. 121). These refer to County 

 Dublin, and are briefly as follows : — In April, 1904, a friend 

 of the author so accurately described two pairs of Wagtails 

 which were frequenting the gardens of the Ringsend Coast- 

 guard Station that there seemed little doubt that they were 

 White Wagtails. On April 24th (two days later), Mr. 

 Williams himself saw and identified at ten yards distance, 

 four White Wagtails on the shore near Malahide. It was not 

 until April 26th, 1908, that Mr. Williams again saw a White 

 Wagtail, and this was a single bird at Dollymount. The 

 identification of this last bird was confirmed by Mr. W. J. 

 Williams, who knew the species well in Norway. 



Golden Orioles in Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland. 

 —Mr. F. M. Burton records (Naturalist, 1909, p. 268), that he 

 watched an example of Oriolus galbula near Gainsborough on 

 the 12th " instant " (? June). A male was observed in a garden 

 in Renfrewshire in the first half of May, and was afterwards 

 found dead (W. Horton, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1909, p. 182). 

 An adult male was also shot on April 24th, near Dunmanway, 

 co. Cork (F. R. Rohu, Irish Nat., 1909, p. 183). 



Nesting of Hawfinch in Scotland. — A pair of Cocco- 

 thraustes vulgaris built two nests and laid eggs in May, 1909, 

 near East Linton, in East Lothian. Unfortunately disaster 

 attended both efforts, and no young were reared (W. Evans, 

 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1909, p. 181). Only one nest had pre- 

 viously been found in Scotland (cf. supra, Vol. I., p. 151). A 

 young bird was found dead in East Lothian on July 3rd, 1908 

 (cf. Vol. II., p. 314). An adult Hawfinch was seen by Mr. W. 

 Berry on April 21st at Newport, Fife (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 1909* p. 181). 



Hoopoe in Scotland. — An example of Upupa epops 

 occurred at Waternish, Skye, on April 27th (Ann. Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1909, p. 183). 



Gadwall Nesting in Scotland. — The Misses L. J. Rintoul 

 and E. V. Baxter report (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1909, p. 184) 

 that in early June, 1909, two nests of Anas strepera were 

 found on " a loch in the S.E. of Scotland." The eggs, down 

 and feathers have been satisfactorily identified. The Gadwall 

 is a rare bird in Scotland and has only once before been 

 positively found nesting, although it has been suspected of 

 doing so on another occasion. 



Turtle-Doves in co. Waterford. — Under this heading 

 Mr. R. J. Ussher contributes to the " Irish Naturalist " (1909, 

 p. 184) a long list of occurrences of Turtur communis, from 



