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1910), from Mull of Galloway Lighthouse on August 12th, 

 1909 (p. 55), East Lothian coast, September 25th, 1885 

 (p. 55) ; Isle of May, September 20th (p. 5) ; September 26th 

 (p. 6) ; October 22nd, 1909 (p. 9). 



Yellow-browed Warblers in Ross-shire. — Miss Annie 

 C. Jackson records (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1910, p. 55), that 

 she procured a male Phylloscopus superciliosus on September 

 23rd, 1909, on the coast of east Ross-shire, and a female in the 

 same locality on September 27th. 



Golden Oriole in Dumfriesshire. — Mr. Hugh S. 

 Gladstone records (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1910, p. 56) that an 

 adult male Oriolus galbula was caught alive on April 30th, 1909, 

 at Penton Lynns in the parish of Canonbie. 



Nesting of the Great Spotted Woodpecker in West 

 Fife. — A pair of Dendrocopus major are reported by Mr. 

 J. J. Dalgleish (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1910, p. 56) to have 

 hatched off a brood in 1909 on the Brucefield Estate, West 

 Fife. A specimen of D. major was obtained near this estate 

 on April 3rd, 1877, and another on January 25th, 1902. 



Unusual Nesting-site of the Tawny Owl. — In his 

 " Zoological Record for Derbyshire " (Derby. Archceol. and 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. Journ., 1910), the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain states 

 that Mr. C. H. Wells found a Tawny Owl (Syrnium aluco) 

 " sitting on three eggs on a little ledge in the side of a pinnacle 

 of rocky cliff in Dovedale. Except for a few leaves, the eggs 

 were laid on the rock and the nesting-place was quite exposed." 

 Another Tawny Owl's nest, in a similar site on a rocky ledge 

 near Ambergate, was subsequently found by the same 

 observer. 



Black-tailed God wits in co. Cork. — With reference to 

 this subject (cf. antea, pp. 309 and 340) Mr. R. Warren states 

 (Zool., 1910, p. 116) that a flock of eleven Limosa belgica 

 visited the mud-banks near Black Rock early in February, 

 1910, and he assumes that these birds were the same as those 

 seen in October, 1909, and had remained about the harbour 

 of Cork all through the winter. 



Black-headed Gulls Nesting in Trees. — Mr. Riley 

 Fortune has observed several pairs of Larus ridibundus 

 at the Twigmoor Gullery in Lincolnshire nesting in fir-trees. 

 The nests were of considerable size, and in each case the bird 

 was incubating (Nat., 1910, p. 95). The height from the 

 ground of the nests, an important point, is not given, but a 

 photograph accompanying the note shows a nest near the 

 top of a fir-tree. More suitable nesting-sites, Mr. Fortune 



