1921.] REPORTS. 13 



Rock-Pipit. — "In 1920 we found a pair of rock-pipits rearing a 

 cuckoo at Pleinmont." 



Long'ta.iied Tit.. — "I did not see a single specimen till Novem- 

 ber 12 when I saw a small Hock of them all together amongst 

 trees in Petit Bot Valley. I believe this bird is not mentioned 

 by Mr. Cecil Smith. I have known it breed twice for certain in 

 the garden at St. Peter's Rectory and both the blue and great 

 tit bred regularly there. The tits generally are recorded rare 

 and uncommon in the islands, but both the great and blue I 

 should have called fairly numerous. The longtailed is certainly 

 rarer, especially of late years. I have recorded the cole tit as 

 doubtful, but I believe I both saw and heard it this year." 



Corncrake and Water Rail. — "In 1920 I heard a corncrake 

 and saw a water rail, but I have not seen or heard either this 

 year. The water rail was in the same locality both in the 

 spring and autumn and in the spring had a mate. They were 

 probably migrants as after a week or two they disappeared. On 

 the second visit (Autumn, 1920) I feel fairly certain that it was 

 shot which would of course account for its non-appearance this 

 year. Unfortunately this is the almost inevitable fate of all our 

 rarer visitors. JJ 



Basil T. Rowswell, 

 Secretary , Ornithological Sect ion . 



Report of the Archaeological Section, 1921. 



The past year has not been a successful one for anti- 

 quarians, as there is little to report. 



In the early summer, a scientist, Mr. Ludovic Mann, 

 who had come on from Jersey, where he had been studying 

 the Megalithic Monuments with a view to finding sculptured 

 figures on the stones, claimed to have been successful in 

 identifying many here, more especially at Dehus. These dis- 

 coveries were not received by the Section without scepticism, 

 which scepticism was later amply justified. 



The heirs of the late Mr. John Carre have generously 

 presented the well-known granite trough^ at Les Fontaines, 

 Castel, carved jvith mermaids and figures, to the States of 

 Guernsey. It has not actually yet been removed, and it will 

 probably eventually find its way to the entrance of the Lukis 

 Museum. 



S. Carey Curtis, 

 Secretary, Archaeological Section. 



