326 Ornithological Observations and Reflections in Shetland. 
ends, even at low water, and most of them cannot be entered 
at all, except by boat. I got as far as what seemed about 
three quarters of the length of one, but I heard no sound of 
the birds, nor could I see any place where they might be 
supposed to congregate. Yet it was that very one called par 
excellence the ‘ doo’s hellir’ or cave— that, it would appear, 
being the old Norse word which, thus, at least, as a particular 
designation, has been handed down all these years. That the 
doo’s habits in these secret habitations cannot be studied and 
compared which those of the dove-cot Pigeon, their semi- 
domestic representative, is a very great pity. 
On looking, yesterday, at the sands at quite low tide, 
where the two Great Black-backed Gulls, young and old, 
had been feeding, I found it studded all over with the holes of 
Sand Worms. Afterwards, walking on the grass at a low 
altitude above the shores of the voe, where similar sands, 
bored in the same way, were covered by the tide to the depth 
of perhaps a foot, I found these shallow ringed holes even 
more strikingly visible than when the sands were bare. Here 
then is the explanation of the actions of these two birds. 
OCTOBER 12TH.—Great assemblage of Kittiwakes, at 
further end of the loch, beyond the beach of the voe, for bathing 
purposes. Over forty when I counted them, but it has been 
fuller, I think. They bathe in the shallow water along a low 
bank of turf, and as they finish, come out and stand on this, 
so that there are two parties, those bathing and those standing 
quietly preening themselves, the latter growing gradually 
more and more till they include all except a few who stand 
and preen in the water. They bathe very prettily, with much 
flapping of wings and ruffling of feathers. A Whimbrel, 
however, who joins the party, out-bathes them all. He gives 
the water still noisier blows with his wings, and sends a con- 
tinuous shower of drops all over himself, which has a very 
pretty effect, and must have still more should it happen to be 
sunny. 
(To be continued ), 

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The Annotationes Zoologice Japonenses, Volume 9, part 2, contains the 
following items, among many others :—‘ Notes on Oegopsid Cephalopods 
found in Japan’ by Madoka Sasaki; ‘Some new Scale Insects of Japan,’ 
by S. I. Kuwana; ‘ Preliminary Descriptions of some Japanese Triclads ’ 
by I. Ijima and Tokio Kaburaki. 
Hull Museum Publications, Nos. 108 and tog, have been issued. The 
former is the 54th Ouarterly Record of additions, and has illustrated 
articles on a Sedan chair, The Lister Overmantel, A fifth century bronze 
buckle from Jincolnshire, Early Mining Implements, and an East Riding 
Muster Roll, 1625. The latter is an account of ‘ Medals, Tokens, etc., 
Issued in connection with William Wilberforce and the Aboliticn of 
Slavery.’ Each is sold at one penny and is by Mr. T. Sheppard, M.Sc. 


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