56 THE ORNITHOLOGIST. 



and so does the Corn Bunting, and the Starling favours the 

 rough walls and banks. The Skylark is numerous, and the 

 Meadow Pipit and its congener, the Rock Pipit, are well 

 represented. We found three nests of the Twite, and the 

 Wheatear is not uncommon. The true Bock Dove is a common 

 breeding species in many of the sea caves. The Golden Plover 

 is, of course, numerous, and we saw three nests of the common 

 Sand Piper (here called the Bundy). I should say that the 

 Curlew is not a common breeding species here. We had, I 

 think, evidence of only two pairs. The Whimbrel is said to 

 breed on Hoy ; we did not see it there, though we did in one 

 or two other places. We saw T one or two specimens of the 

 Common Snipe, and the Eedshank is so frequently met with as 

 to be quite a nuisance ; the Dunlin is also a common breeding 

 species. 



Of the Anatidae the Common Eider (Somateria mollisima), 

 the Sheld-duck and the Red-Breasted Merganser (Mergulus 

 serratus) are well represented in suitable localities. Of the 

 Petrels the Manx Shearwater has, at least, one recognised 

 breeding station — probably others — and several of the islands 

 are tenanted by the Stormy Petrel. These birds had, how- 

 ever, not resorted to their holes by the middle of June. 



OBSERVATIONS AND QUERIES. 



Arrival of Migrants at "Wiesbaden. — February 12th: Grey Wag- 

 tail; March 6th: White Stork; 7th: White Wagtail ; 10th: Crane; 11th: 

 Woodcock ; 16th : Black Redstart, Redstart, Stonechat ; 17th : Willow 

 Wren, Chiffchaff; 20th: Wheatear, Hedge-Sparrow, Starling. — Graham W. 

 Kerr. 



Pomatorhine Skua in Kerry. — In the "Irish Times" of December 

 21st, 1895, T. W. McCormick records a Pomatorhine Skua (Stercorarius 

 pomatorhinus) receutly shot on the River Laune, Co. Kerry. — G. E. H. 

 Barrett-Hamilton. 



Variety of Bartailed Godwit. — A beautiful variety of this species was 

 shot on November 26th, 1896, by Mr. Kirkwood on the sands of the Island 

 of Bartrough, about a mile from the town of Killala, Ireland. The bird is 



