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accounted for the. incursion I am at a loss to suggest. I saw a large 
flock on Sept. 7th, amounting to probably three hundred birds, feeding 
leisurely on a mud-flat, in spite of the incessant fusillade in various 
other directions, where smaller flocks were on the moye—Knots, 
Curlews, Redshanks, and Whimbrel—to which at dusk an immense 
flight of Terns were to be added, making Breydon exceptionally lively. 
Hyery lout who knew one end of a gun from the other obtained his 
quota of the chicken-tame birds, which were mostly young and 
exceptionally fat. On the morning of the 7th I accosted a shoe- 
black who owns one of those “murderous” weapons—a converted 
rifle, whose face was bandaged with hospital wrappings. ‘‘ What 
have you done?” I asked. “Oh,” said he, “the cartridge bust, and 
went off at the wrong ind of the gun; but Id got eight godwicks afore 
I done it.” There was no sale for the victims, the taste for shore- 
birds having become practically extinct in Yarmouth, where not even 
a game-stall other than for bona fide game-birds now remains since the 
death of Durrant, of some reputation as a wildfowler himself. Gun- 
ners mostly cooked their own birds.—Anrtuur H. Patterson (Ibis 
House, Great Yarmouth). 
Unusual Site for a Great Black-backed Gull’s Nest.—This summer 
Mr. H. H. Perry Knox Gore found a nest with three eggs on the low 
gravelly island—The Luck—near Killala. The Luck is a breeding 
haunt of Common, Arctic, and Lesser Terns. The nest was placed 
so low on the shore of the island that an unusually high tide would 
have reached it. The nearest breeding haunt of the Great Black- 
backed Gull is the pillar-like Rock of Dooncrista of Downpatrick 
Head, ten miles west.—RosEert WarrEN (Moy View). 
Fulmar Petrel in the Firth of Forth. — On July 16th last, while 
on a visit to the Bass Rock, we found a Fulmar Petrel (fulmarus 
glacialis) dead on the shore at Canty Bay, near North Berwick. On 
the following day one of the lighthouse-keepers, without knowing of 
our find, told us that a pair had nested on the Bass Rock two years 
ago, which he said was the first time the Fulmar had been known to 
breed so far south. However this may be, we thought its occurrence 
in the Firth of Forth this year should be recorded. The bird, which 
was not in a good state for preservation when found, is now in our 
possession.—W. & T. Mattocs (Mount Pleasant, Johnstone, Renfrew- 
shire). : . 
September Movement of Shearwaters.—An extensive movement 
seems to take place with the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus anglorwm) 
