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as his liad no wliite on it at ail, so thq^tit would appear 

 that there were t\\ o Skuas on the lake wlien we were there. 



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LONG-TAILED SKUA ON LOUGH ARROW, JUNE llTH, 1914. 



ABOUT TO ALIGHT. 



{Photographed by J. A. Dockray). 



It is hardly surprising, as we had most tempestuous and 

 cold weather. John A. Dockray. 



MOORHEN COVERING EGGS. 



Mr. J. H. Owen's note on page 54 reminds me of 

 a correspondence on this subject in the Zoologist (1898, 

 p. 506; 1899, pp. 30 and 81). Seebohm in his History of 

 British Birds (II., p. 561) stated that " the Waterhen 

 generally covers her eggs when she leaves the nest with 

 pieces of surrounding vegetation," and Dixon in his Game 

 Birds and Wild-Fowl of the British Isles (p. 85 of the 4to 

 Edition) also said : " When the sitting bird leaves the nest, 

 it covers tlie eggs with bits of vegetation." In support of 

 this statement Dixon gives tlie names of Bewick, Waterton, 

 Naumann, Stevenson and Stanley and refers to an instance 



