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one fresh egg, despite the fact that in order to obtain 

 successful photographs I had previously cleared away all 

 the rushes and weeds in front of the nest, so that it was 

 much exposed to view. Howard Bentham. 



GREEN SANDPIPER IN ORKNEY. 



Last year I was able to record the occurrence of two Green 

 Sandpipers {Tringa ocrophus) in Orkney (Vol. VI., p. 315). 

 This year (1913), on August 7th, my friend Mr. T. P. Aldworth 

 saw a single bird which got up out of a ditch at Evie. 



James R. Hale. 



STILTS IN KENT. 



Two specimens of the Black-winged Stilt {Himantopus 

 himantopus) have been recently obtained at Lydd, Kent. 

 One, a female, was shot on September 15th, 1913, and the 

 other, a male, on September 20th. I saw both birds soon 

 after they \\ere shot, and they were birds of the year, the 

 legs were broAvnish, not having assumed the red colouring 

 of the adult birds. H. W. Fokd-Lindsay. 



LITTLE AUK IN AUGUST IN IRELAND. 



On August 30th, 1913, a Little Auk {Alle alle) was killed 

 at Aranmore Light station, co. Donegal, being the first 

 occasion on which this species has struck a lantern. It was 

 received by me in a decomposed condition and unfit for 

 preservation. On the same date, the Chief Inspector of 

 Fisheries (Mr. W. S. Greene) saw a Little Auk on the 

 Kenmare River. It looked, he says, " a little out of sorts." 

 Mr. Ussher has tabulated the monthly occurrences of the 

 Little Auk (Birds of Ireland, p. 368) and there are no records 

 for June, July, August, or September. 



Richard M. Barrington. 



DEATH OF MR. R. J. USSHER. 



We deeply regret to announce that Mr. R. J. Ussher, the 

 well known Irish ornithologist, died on October 12th. 



Mr. Ussher's place in Irish ornithology will indeed be 

 difficult to fill. A notice of his life and work is kindly pro- 

 mised for our next number by Mr. R. M. Barrington. 



Breeding of the Nutcracker in Denmark. — ^In the 

 Dansk Orniihologish Forenings Tidsshrift, Vol. VII., p. 165, 

 P. Jespersen states that the Nutcracker (Nucifraga c. caryo- 

 catactes) was discovered breeding in north-west Sjaelland 

 in 1912. Four young were reared in Kongdal Skov near 



