472 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
REDWING NESTING IN PERTHsHIRE.—The occasions on which this bird 
is known to have bred in England seem to be very few, and perhaps the 
readers of ‘The Zoologist’ may be interested in hearing that there was 
undoubtedly a nest in the Blairgowrie district of Perthshire this summer. 
It was probably in a large fir wood on a hill of some 2600 feet in elevation, 
forming part of my father’s highland shooting, for though unable to find 
the actual nest I observed the birds about for some time, and on the 25th 
August shot a young Redwing, in good plumage, which is now being 
preserved. I have also been much pleased to notice this year how much 
the Capercaillies are increasing in numbers in many Scotch woods. Many 
of them fell to our guns in the ordinary course of shooting, and on one 
occasion, had we so wished it, we could have shot twenty in half an hour's 
walk through a neighbouring forest. They are grand birds, and well 
deserve protection and indulgence at the hands of owners of moors and 
forests, in spite of their fondness for young spruce tops.—Epwin Lzsrrr 
ArnoLpd (15, Haroldstone Road, Cromwell Road, S.W.) 
Uncommon Sea Birps at FramBoroven.—On the 20th September 
I received from Mr. Bailey, of Flamborough, a Little Gull (bird of the year), 
two Richardson’s Skuas (one adult with white breast, one a dark immature 
bird), and a Great Shearwater.—JuL1an Tuck (Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent). 
Great CresteD GREBE IN WARwIcKsHIRE.—About the middle of 
September a Great Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus, Linn., was picked up 
in a field about 200 yards from the brook at Priors Marston, Warwickshire. 
It proved to be a male bird in perhaps its second year. Although it was 
unable to fly, I could not find that it had suffered any injury ; Beebe it 
was exhausted.—Oxtver V. Aptin (Bodicote, Oxon). 
Sapine’s GULL NEAR Dupiin.—Mr. Glennon, of Lower Merrion Street, 
has shown me an immature example of this rare gull, which he shot on 
September 24th close to the Pigeon House Fort at the entrance of the 
River Liffey. it is a male bird in the first year’s plumage, and weighed 
six ounces and a half. I saw it on the 26th, while quite freshly killed. 
In the stomach were found only the remains of a few bivalve shells. This 
is, I believe, the ninth Irish specimen.—A. G. More (Museum of Science 
and Art, Dublin). 
Honey Buzzarp 1x Hertrrorpsstre.—On September 23rd, while 
shooting at Little Hadham, near Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, a 
Honey Buzzard, mobbed by some half-a-dozen Rooks, flew over me, and 
I was fortunate enough to secure it. It was a female in very dark plumage, 
and measured fifty-three inches and a half from tip to tip of wings.— 
Hersert Laneron (Brighton). 
