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foster parent to be selected (1. 1920, 154). Kingfishers 
are increasing in various parts of Scotland, but we do not 
feel it desirable to give particulars as to the localities. 
Barn Owls are reported as having bred in Renfrewshire. 
With regard to our nesting Ducks, we have satisfactory 
indications of local increases of several species; the Wigeon 
seems firmly established as a breeding Duck in West Ross 
(1. 1920, 153), and Mr J. G. Gordon sends us notes of 
females and broods on Gorm Lochs (W. Ross), and in a 
pool near by. Pintail and their downy young were seen 
by us on Loch Gelly on 15th July (1. 1921, 40), while broods 
of Shoveller are reported from Raith Lake (Fife), on 15th 
June, and the River Dee, Kirkcudbright, on 12th July. 
Pochard and young were seen on Lindores Loch on 24th 
June, and on Loch Gelly on 15th July, and a pair bred 
successfully at Baker Loch (Renfrewshire). Tufted Duck 
have become so common and generally distributed that 
it is not necessary to do more than say that they are 
reported as having nested in many districts. 
An interesting little paper appears in Brztish Birds 
(January 1921), on the nesting of the Storm Petrel on a 
Hebridean Island: on 18th August a nest was found con- 
taining one egg, this nest was visited again on 18th October, 
and the young Petrel was nearly full-fledged (2. xiv. 175). 
From Noss Head (Caithness), on 29th May, we have 
the following record: “I found to-day a nest containing 
two eggs of the Herring Gull, and one of a Fulmar. The 
Fulmar is in possession and the Gulls sit on a projection 
above the nesting site in a very despondent attitude.” This 
ledge was never occupied by Fulmars before, and it is 
pleasing to think that the Fulmar can hold its own even 
against as formidable an opponent as the Herring Gull. 
We have satisfactory records of the spread of Great- 
crested Grebes, which have been found breeding on various 
lochs in the Kilpatrick Hills and in other parts of Renfrew- 
shire; they also nested on lochs in West Fife and in 
Forfarshire, and are reported from old nesting sites. We 
do not think it advisable to give more details as to the 
new nesting localities, as it is very desirable that the 
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