56 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vm. 



Further Increase of Fulmar Petrels in Ireland. — 

 Mr. R. M. Barrington announces {Irish Nat., 1914, p. 133) 

 that Mr. P. J. McGinley, lightkeeper on the Great Skellig 

 (Kerry), writing on March 16th, 1914, states that the Fulmars 

 (Fulmarns g. glacialis) arrived there this year on February 

 20th, and that the colony no^v amounts to more than seventy 

 birds. The discovery of this colony Mas first announced by 

 Mr. Barrington in 1913 {antea, Vol. VII., p. 56), when the 

 number of birds breeding Mas stated to be twenty-four. 

 The first Irish colonj^ discovered Avas that at Horn Head 

 (Donegal) originally announced as an " Ulster Clifif." Mr. 

 Barrington states that this colony Mas first discovered by 

 Mr. G. V. Stoney in April, 1910. In May, 1911, there Mere 

 about tM'cnty birds there, but in Jxme, 1913, Mr. Barrington 

 found about seventy pairs. The second colony Mas also first 

 discovered by Mr. Stoney, mIio received tM'o eggs from the 

 Stags of Broadhaven (Mayo) in May, 1911. In July, 1911, 

 the late Richard Ussher discovered near Portacloy (almost 

 opposite the Stags of Broadhaven), another colony, and made 

 the first announcement of the fact that Fulmars Mere breed- 

 ing in Ireland. The fourth colony to be discovered Mas the 

 one on the Great Skellig mentioned above, and the fifth 

 one on Tory Island (Donegal) as recorded by R. J. Ussher 

 in 1913 (c/. Vol. VII., p. 175). 



Sandwich Tern Breeding in Jersey. — Mr. G. F. B. de 

 Gruchy records (Field, 20. VI. 14, p. 1329) that on June 7th, 

 1914, he found tMO nests M'ith eggs of Sterna s. sandvicensis 

 on an islet off Jersey. 



