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Morkov. Hofjaegermester Estrup, who made the discovery, 

 noticed the birds haunting the wood, but did not find the 

 nest till the young ones were fledged, at the end of June. 

 This is a considerable westward extension of the breeding 

 range of this species, which has previously been recorded 

 as breeding on Bornholm. 



Tree-Spaerow nesting in CO. Donegal. — ^Mr. C. V. 

 Stoney writes {Irish Nat, 1913, p. 163) that he has discovered 

 another breeding colony of Passer montanus in co. Donegal 

 besides those already known. This colony consists of some 

 twelve or more pairs nesting in company with House- 

 Sparrows in a small fishing village on the north-west coast. 



RlNG-OtrZEL AS FOSTER-PARENT OF CuCKOO. — ^In the 



Scottish Naturalist, 1913, p. 233, Mr. C. Kirk states that he 

 observed a Ring-Ouzel {Turdus t. torquatus) feeding a fully- 

 fledged young Cuckoo at Kilchoan, Loch Melfort, on July 11th, 

 1913, at about 500 ft. above sea level. The recorded 

 instances in which the Ring-Ouzel has acted as fosterer are 

 very few : Bidwell quotes R. Small and A. Hogg ; Wells 

 Bladen also mentions an instance in the Bep. North Staffs. 

 Field Club, 1895-6, p. 24. The issue of Country Life for 

 July 5th, 1913, contains a photograph of a Ring Ouzel's 

 nest containing a Cuckoo's egg, found on June 10th, 1913, 

 at Airedale, but the note is unfortunately only authenticated 

 by the initials of the writer (J. H. P.). Mr. E. P. Butterfield, 

 writing in the Zoologist 1913, p. 391, states that a Cuckoo's 

 egg was recently found in a Ring-Ouzel's nest on the moor 

 above Bingley, probably a reference to the Airedale 

 occurrence noted above. Mr. Butterfield adds that over 

 twenty years ago his sons found a Cuckoo's egg in a Ring- 

 Ouzel's nest on Harden Moor. 



Further spread of the Fulmar in Ireland. — Following 

 Mr. Barrington's news of the breeding of Fulmarus g. glacialis 

 in CO. Kerry {antea, p. 56), Mr. R. J. Ussher announces that 

 on visiting Tory Island (co. Donegal) on July 1st, 1913, he 

 found two pairs of Fulmars sitting, and others circling close by. 

 An islander stated that the birds had appeared a month 

 and a half previously. This is the second colony in Donegal. 

 A second colony for Mayo has also been discovered on a 

 precipitous island not far from the great chff where Mr. Ussher 

 first saw Fulmars breeding in July, 1911. There are thus 

 five breeding colonies now known in Ireland. 



White Oystercatcher. — Mr. John A. Dockray writes that 

 a white specimen of the Oystercatcher {Haematopus ostralegus) 



