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Lowestoft a few weeks before now (October 17th) it was to be seen 

 every day. Lowestoft Pier is now in the hands of the naval authorities, 

 and sometimes on a rough day I used to get into a sentry-box at the 

 east end to watch the Gulls. Some fine old Lesser Black-backs 

 would come quite close, especially when there had been a turn-out 

 of refuse, which attracted a swarm of voracious sea-rovers. I could 

 not identify the Kittiwake or the Great Black-back, but there was no 

 doubt about the other four British-breeding Gulls. Having committed 

 myself to a lantern-talk on " Our Summer Migrants " during the 

 coming winter, I asked a friend who is well up in East Coast migration 

 whether the Lesser Black-back might fairly be included, as I possess 

 a very good picture of a group taken on the Fame Islands. His 

 opinion was that it certainly might, as it was never to be seen in 

 mid-winter, when the Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls are 

 more abundant than at any other time. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock 

 Eectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 



Gannet Nesting in Orkney. — I am informed by a correspondent 

 that a pair of Gannets nested in 1914 on the Horse of Copinsay, off 

 the east coast of Orkney. There was no news of the birds this year ; 

 but as a lighthouse is now being built, it is not likely that the birds 

 have bred there this season. — 0. V. Aplin (Bloxham). 



Some Notes on the Nesting of a Pair of Moorhens: — 



April 12th. — Moorhens commenced constructing a nest on some 

 overhanging bushes, placed for that purpose at the side of a pond 

 in my orchard. The nest is about eighteen inches above present 

 water-line. 



20th. — This nest appears never to have been further completed, 

 except perhaps a very few additional pieces of rush have been added. 



May 5th. — A second nest has been built on some dead bushes 

 alongside brook, thirty yards distant from the other nest at the 

 pond, and now contains three eggs. 



7th. — 7.30 p.m., a storm in the evening washed away the nest 

 and eggs. Another nest, formed on the top of a stub amongst an 

 accumulation of sticks and other refuse, found the same afternoon, 

 a distance of two hundred and twenty-five yards above stream. I 

 never saw a bird at this nest afterwards. 



9th. — 8.30 a.m., an egg in the first nest at pond. 



11th. — 6.30 a.m., still the one egg only, but the position of it has 

 been altered. 6.30 p.m., egg removed. 



17th. — An additional nest on the bushes over pond, some seven 

 feet away from other nest. 



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