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varying numbers," was the summary — doubtless correct — for the huge 

 county of Yorkshire, in 1881. To Cheshire and Lancashire the Lesser 

 Whitethroat appears to be a regular visitor in small numbers, and it breeds 

 sparingly in " Lakeland " ; but on the east side of the " divide " it becomes 

 very rare, as we see, in Durham ; is not authenticated in Northumberland; 

 and, across the Tweed, was unrecorded up to 1888, in Berwickshire (Muir- 

 head). Turning a little south-westward, we have the valuable evidence of 

 Mr. Service as to its sparse distribution in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries- 

 shire, and down by the Borders — showing the line of migration through 

 the Lake district, and there are statements as to its nesting locally up to 

 Stirlingshire, beyond which it is not known to breed. The bird shot by 

 Mr. G. Sim at Aberdeen, in November, 1880, as well as the examples 

 observed by Saxby in the month of September on the island of Unst, in 

 the Shetlands, were probably migrants from Scandinavia, where the species 

 is known to breed up to 65° N. lat. ; a migrant was the only Irish specimen 

 on record, obtained off the coast of Kerry on October 1st, 1890 ; and such, 

 probably, the autumnal visitors recorded by Rodd from the Scilly Islands. 

 The European distribution of the Lesser Whitethroat is essentially 

 easterly ; the species being uncommon*in Normandy and Western France; 

 very rare, even on passage, in Portugal ; and only becoming recognisable 

 in Spain, either on transit or in winter, to the eastward of the Straits of 

 Gibraltar; in fact, it cannot fairly be called a regular migrant before we 

 come to the province of Valencia, close upon the meridian of Green- 

 wich. — Howard Saunders — Ed. pro tern.] 



Cormorant with Parasitic Worms. — Having occasion to examine the 

 stomach of a Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, I was surprised to find the 

 interior of the digestive cavity occupied by numerous parasitic worms. 

 Some few of these were detached, but the majority adhered in bunches to 

 the walls of the stomach. These worms measure about an inch in length, 

 are round in form, and often carry a single black stripe. Is it probable 

 that these worms had been transferred to the digestive cavity of the 

 Cormoraut from the interior of a flounder or other fish "host"?— D. L. 

 Thorpe (Carlisle). [Communicated by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson.] 



Addition to the Birds of Donegal. — Mr. H. C. Hart, in his note 

 on this subject (p. 22), omits one bird that, as far as I am aware, has not 

 before been recorded in his lists —namely, the Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis. 

 In the 'Irish Naturalist' for July, 1892, I notified the occurrence of this 

 bird in Co. Donegal. The specimen, which was a well-defined example of 

 the grey-breasted form, I picked up on the sands between Ballyshanuon 

 and Bundoran. — H. Lyster Jameson (Loughgilly, Co. Armagh). 



