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Bittern {Botaurus s. stellaris). — ^Although it is not re- 

 corded that either nest or young were found, it is ahnost 

 certain tliat the Bittern again bred, as it was heard by Mr. 

 Gumey on May 8th, and seen by him on June 20th. 



Redshank {Tringa totanus). — ^An egg placed under a hen 

 by Mr. G. H. Gurney hatched in twenty-four or five days. 



Common Curlew {Numenius a. arquata). — ^A nest was 

 again found near King's Lynn by Mr. N. Tracy and four 

 yoimg Mere hatched. 



Roseate Terns {Sterna d. dougallii). — ^A pair were identi- 

 fied at Blakeney on Jiuie 24th, but there is apparently no 

 l^roof that they were nesting. The photograph reproduced 

 on page 175 and labelled Lesser Tern, appears to be that of 

 a Common Tern. 



Black-headed Buntings in Yorkshire and Sussex. — 

 At the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, held on 

 May 13th, 1914, Mr. A. F. Griffith exliibited an adult male 

 Emberiza melanocephala \\hich had been caught near Halifax 

 (Yorkshire) in December, 1910, and kept in an aviary by 

 Major Johnson, of Hove, imtil May, 1912, when it was killed 

 by a Com-Bimting. Mr. Griffith also exhibited a second 

 adult male of the same species which had been shot at Battle 

 (Sussex) in the first week of April, 1912. Both specimens 

 have been presented to the Booth Museum (c/. Bull. B.O.C., 

 XXXIII., pp. 133-4). 



Pied Flycatcher in Co. Cork. — Mr. R. M. Barrington 

 notes [Irish Nat., 1914, p. 148) that a male Muscicapa h. 

 hypoleuca was taken at the Ballycottin Lighthouse and 

 received by him in the flesh on April 19th, 1914. 



White's Thrush in Sussex. — ^At the May meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club, Mr. A. F. Griffith exliibited 

 a siDccimen of Turdus d. aureus, which had been picked up 

 dead in a garden at Hove, Sussex, on September 26th, 1898. 

 Mr. Griffith himself inspected the bird in the flesh at the 

 time. It \^as recently presented to the Booth Museum. 



Increase of Gannets at Ixttle Skellig (Kerry). — 

 Mr. McGinley, lightkeeper, informs Mr. Barrington [Irish 

 Nat., 1914, p. 134) that the Gannets on the Little Skellig 

 are becoming more numerous every year, and have no\^- 

 extended to the south-west side. This would appear to be 

 now the largest single colony of Sula bassana in the world. 



