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be regarded as exceptionally late. Another double-brooded species is the 

 Ringed Plover, which lays in April and again in June. Now the three 

 species mentioned, the Woodcock, Snipe, and Hinged Plover, are partially 

 resident in Ireland, and remain in their breeding haunts here the whole 

 year round ; while the Golden Plover, Lapwing, Curlew, and others, which 

 rear but one brood in the season, though likewise partially resident, shift 

 their quarters for the breeding season from the sea-shore to inland moors 

 and mountain ranges, not having time for more than a single brood in 

 consequence of their periodical wandering. Do the Woodcocks, Snipe, 

 and Ringed Plovers which breed in more northern regions and winter in 

 these islands — or pass through on migration — produce more than one brood 

 in the year? I should think not. — Allan Ellison (Trinity College, 

 Dublin). 



The Manx Shearwater inland in Sussex.— I was staying at a small 

 village known as Hurst Green, on the borders of Kent and Sussex, in the 

 middle of August, 1882, and, on going into the garden adjoining the house 

 one afternoon, was surprised to see a strange bird coming towards me, 

 apparently in a very exhausted state. It alighted in the garden, and 

 having my collie dog with me at the time, he caught it, when I found it to 

 be a specimen of the Manx Shearwater [Pvffinus anglorum). I might 

 mention that a strong south-westerly gale was blowing at the time, and 

 Hastings, the nearest sea point, is fourteen miles distant. I presume the 

 bird must have come inland from that direction. I have it still, preserved. 

 — Thos. R. Hardkn (7, Claremont, Hastings) 



The Great Skua on Foula. — Mr. Harold Raeburn, in a note on the 

 Great Skua on Foula (p. 354), in an ingenious sentence insinuates that a 

 statement in my paper on the Great Skua is not quite correct, and quotes 

 a letter from some Shetland correspondent to prove it. No good can result 

 from a personal controversy in your pages, but I repeat that only two Great 

 Skuas were shot or fired at, and this with much reluctance, in order to 

 verify a very interesting fact apparently unrecorded by naturalists. As to 

 the force of example, it is valueless on Foula ; my friend found a Skua's 

 nest with two eggs, and left it undisturbed. A native saw him walk away, 

 and immediately went up and robbed the nest ! It is the egg-dealers of 

 Great Britain and the Continent (and possibly America) who create a 

 market for Skua's eggs, and must be held responsible for banishing those 

 fine birds from Shetland. While the demand exists the natives will take 

 the eggs in spite of any gamekeepers, because the thick fogs which at times 

 envelop the Sneug will render it impossible for any one to see what is going 

 on more than twenty yards ahead. Once the young birds come out, the 

 Skuas remain unmolested, since there is no market for them. The only 

 way, therefore, is to raise a fund, to which I would willingly contribute, and 



