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those parts a local dealer in eggs, to whom the collectors bring their spoils. 

 He had never received any Manx Shearwaters' eggs. When in the shop of 

 Mr. Rawlings, chemist, of Barmouth, I saw some eggs of the Manx Shear- 

 water, which he informed me had been taken in 1893 at Bardsey Island. 

 From what I saw for myself, I quite agree with Mr. Coward that the Manx 

 Shearwater does breed on that part of the mainland of the coast of Car- 

 narvonshire, and before seeing Mr. Coward's article I had intended to 

 re-visit the spot, and endeavour to discover a living Manx Shearwater 

 and its egg in one of those rabbit-burrows, and then communicate the fact 

 to ' The Zoologist.'— E. W. H. Blagg (Cheadle, Staffordshire). 



In the March number of ■ The Zoologist ' (p. 110), Mr. Guruey suggests 

 that the Shearwaters which we found dead on the cliffs of Carnarvonshire 

 had been killed by being dashed against the cliffs. This I feel certain 

 was not the case, for the birds were lying on the soft turf-slope close to the 

 holes in which they evidently had been breeding, and not only were their 

 necks broken, but in many cases the heads were torn off, and lay some dis- 

 tance from the bodies ; and in other cases the heads were twisted completely 

 round, and loose feathers from the necks lay beside them. Several birds 

 killed in the same manner lay in a field on the landward side of a turf-wall, 

 and, as I mentioned, one bird was dead in a hole that had been dug out 

 with a spade. The interest of the occurrence, of course, lay in the fact of 

 their breeding on the mainland, not in the fact that they had been killed 

 there by some person or persons unknown. — T. A. Coward (Higher Down, 

 Bowdon). 



Hen Harrier in Sussex. — It may interest some of your Sussex readers 

 to know that on March 21st I received a good male Hen Harrier in the 

 flesh from Balcombe, Sussex, with the information that the bird was killed 

 there on March 19th by the sender, who had never seen one like it before, 

 and did not know what it was. I have hardly any personal acquaintance 

 with Sussex, but the Hen Harrier has become so rare over the greater part 

 of England that I consider this occurrence as worthy of record. — Lilford 

 (Lilford Hall, Oundle). 



Distribution of the Pomatorhine Skua in Summer. — Referring to 

 Col. Feilden's note on this subject (p. 172), I may state that on the 25th 

 July last I was midway between the Faroes and Iceland in the Danish mail- 

 boat 'Thyra,' and my log contains the following entry: — "A surprising 

 number of Richardson's Skuas round the ship, mixed with a larger species 

 (probably Pomatorhines, but none of these came quite close enough to me for 

 identification) in the proportion of about six to one. Sometimes a flock of 

 some seventy individuals together. This lasted till the afternoon." The 

 Pomatorhine Skua has never been known to breed in Iceland, where 

 Richardson's Skua is abundant and everywhere distributed. I should be 



