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children sat down on a sandhill in full view of the nest, when the bird ran 

 off and then flew away. I marked two corks and dropped them near the 

 nest before leaving. The followiug day, towards evening, I again visited 

 the nest, put the bird off, and found the two marked corks in the nest and 

 the half cork six inches away. These I threw away, and again lay down to 

 watch. The bird soon came back, and settled down in the empty nest for 

 a short time. Soon, however, it got up again, and after this seemed 

 uneasy, as it would stay in the nest for a minute or two, then run away a 

 short distance, only to return. This was repeated several times. As it got 

 too cold to watch T went away, leaving two or three corks near the nest. 

 There was a heavy storm of wind and rain on the night of the 2 8th, and 

 on visiting the spot once more, on the 29th, I found nothing but a few 

 fragments of shell to mark the spot. I left St. Anne's on the 31st, and did 

 not return for two months. During my various visits to the spot, which 

 were made at all hours of the day, I never once observed anyone at the 

 nest, and cannot help thinking that the bird itself put the corks in the nest 

 — at any rate after they had been thrown away once. — Frank Brownsword 

 (St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire). 



[In the article on the " Nesting habits of the Ringed Plover," which 

 appeared in * The Zoologist ' for December last, a misprint occurred which 

 should be corrected. On p. 447, line 32, for " deep holes apparently found 

 by the birds " read "formed by the birds." — Ed.] 



Additions to the Avifauna of Donegal. — The following species may 

 be added to my List of Donegal Birds : they have been reported by Mr. 

 D. C. Campbell, of Ballynagard House, Londonderry, and were obtained 

 during the storms of the first ten days of October last : — 



Roller, Coracias garrulus, Linn. — One was shot by Mr. John M'Connell 

 on Burt Level Slob, Lough Swilly, on October 10th. This is the bird 

 recorded by Mr. R. Patterson, p. 33. The species has occurred five or 

 six times in Ireland, chiefly in autumn. 



Grey Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, Linn. — Two were shot at 

 Greencastle, on the west side of Lough Foyle, on the 13th or 14th of 

 October. Mr. Campbell writes, "Through the kindness of Mr. P. Crosbie 

 I was enabled to examiue and identify them." From the description Mr. 

 Crosbie gave us a day after the occurrence I had little doubt they were 

 Phalaropes, but the Grey Phalarope is a rare and uncertain winter visitor 

 to Ireland. 



Pink-footed Goose, Anser brachyrhynchus, Baillon. — Mr. Campbell 

 writes: — "The prize, from an ornithological point of view, brought in by 

 the storm, was a Pink-footed Goose, which I had the good fortune to find 

 in Mr. Divine's poultry-shop, on October 21st. It is a new bird to the 



