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Tiree," which Mr. P. Anderson has been contributing to 

 the Scottish Naturalist (1913), it is mentioned (p. 220) that 

 a few pairs of Phalaro'pus lohatus arrive regularly in 

 Tiree about the last week in May and remain to breed. 

 Mr. Anderson does not state when they first visited the 

 island, but in a paper on the same subject by the same 

 author, published in our contemporary in 1898, the bird 

 is not mentioned at all. Presumably, therefore, this is an 

 acquisition to the birds breeding in the Inner Hebrides. 



Reports of Quails. — ^With reference to the note on p. 238, 

 Mr. W. Wells Bladen writes that early in September, 1913, 

 Mr. W. E. Pickering, shooting near Newport, Salop, saw a 

 bevy of young Quails, while on October 14th he saw several 

 QuaU, and on the 22nd one, in the same field. Mr. H. E. 

 Forrest writes of three other nests in Shropshire in 1913, two 

 at Ellesmere and one at Stanton- on-Hine, and that a Quail 

 was heard calling at Allerbury on August 15th. 



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