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very wild, 600 feet high, and nine miles off the coast of Kerry, the most 

 westerly land in Britain. I have another leg and wing from the Fastnet 

 Eock, seven miles south of Co. Cork. This bird was killed by striking 

 against the lantern at 4 a.m. on October 5th, 1886. The remarkable thing 

 is that the Pied Flycatcher has not been met with in Ireland except at 

 light-stations, if we except Mr. Warren's specimen killed in April, 1875, in 

 Mayo. The light-keepers do not know the bird, and sent the specimens 

 in accordance with instructions printed on the migration schedules. These 

 instructions, as to legs, wings, &c, were first generally complied with in 

 1886.— Richakd M. Barrington (Fassaroe, Bray, Co. Wicklow). 



Dipper nesting in a Tree. — In the last two numbers of 'The 

 Zoologist' mention is made of this bird nesting in a tree, and as it seems 

 to be of rather rare occurrence perhaps the following may be of interest: — 

 In April, 1885, when salmon-fishing on the Dee, near Banchory, Aberdeen- 

 shire, I saw a Dipper fly into a large bunch of grass which was hanging 

 from a branch about four feet above the river. This bunch of grass had 

 been left there when the river had been in flood : the branch had dragged 

 on the top of the water, and collected grass and other things brought down, 

 and when the water fell, it was left in a large bunch high and dry. Seeing 

 the bird go in many times, I sent my gillie, who in the centre found a nest, 

 with four eggs, which he brought me : it was lined with brown leaves of 

 beech. — J. Whitaker (Rainworth, Notts). 



Manx Shearwater near Croydon. — On September 6th a Manx Shear- 

 water was flying over Haling Park, Croydon, mobbed by Swallows. A 

 man saw it fly against a tree and fall in a stunned or exhausted state ; he 

 picked it up and took it to Thorpe, a taxidermist here, who kept it alive for 

 a day or two, but as he could not make it eat anything he killed and 

 preserved it. — Philip Crowley (Waddon House, Croydon). 



Nesting of the Peregrine and Kestrel. — Has anyone ever seen either 

 of these species carrying material to build a nest, or (if their eggs have 

 been found in a nest) has it been anything more than the deserted nest of 

 another bird? I am led to this enquiry by seeing in ' Birdsnesting,' by 

 Miller Christy (1888), that the materials used by the Peregrine are " Sticks, 

 sea-weed, dry grass, and other vegetable substances," aud that those used 

 by the Kestrel are " Sticks, dry grass, and wool." Similar statements have 

 been made by previous writers, and by some of high authority. My 

 experience of the breeding habits of the Peregrine extends over six seasons, 

 aud I have annually descended to several eyries of this species, numbering 

 eleven in 1888 ; and I have been familiar with the habits of the Kestrel 

 since I was a boy. I once took some Peregrine's eggs from the deserted 

 nest of a Raven ; and Mr. A. W. Johnson, of Newcastle, tells me of a 

 bimilar instance that occurred this year. With these two exceptions, I have 



