Notes. 
0 Sept., 1916. 
My Garden Warbler nests are invariably surrounded at distances up ta 
twenty yards by up to half a dozen foundations of nests, varying from a 
usual thin platform about two inches diameter to as much as half a nest. 
They are unmistakeable. They are frequently in laurel and small bushes 
as well as in the almost universal nest site — the briar. I once saw one 
of these being built. 
J. P. BURKITT. 
Enniskillen. 
Blackcap in Co. Fermanagh* 
Though the Blackcap has been identified in this county (Fermanagh) 
on the best authority, including one last year, I regret I have never seen 
it, not have I ever heard of the nest being found. ' I have identified scores 
of Garden Warblers in the search for a Blackcap. From early spring this 
year I carefully watched a number of likely localities, including islands 
where they had been seen. The Garden Warblers came in a rush rather 
late about i6th May. I think I identified all the Garden Warblers on the 
above islands (10 pair) including many others — not an easy job, but no 
Elackcap. 
J. P. BURKITT. 
Enniskillen, 
Fulmars on the Skelligs. 
Mrs. Barrington has kindly alloweJ me to see an interesting letter 
written to her on the 15th of April last, by Mr. P. J. MacGinley, light- 
keeper at the Skelligs, reporting a further and evidently considerable 
increase in the numbers of the colony of Fulmar Petrels nesting £ t that 
station. " Perhaps," Mr. MacGinley writes, " it may be of some interest 
to know the Fulmars are here again this season, in larger numbers than 
previous years, having taken up a nesting site on a difieren4,^aspect of 
rock. There are now three colonies of birds nesting, and if with each 
successive season they keep on increasing as they have been doing since 
they first visited Skelligs, they will soon be as numerous as the Gannets." 
It will be remembered that the first settlement of the Fulmar as a nesting 
species on the Great Skellig took place in 1913, and that since that year 
the late Mr. Barrington made annual communications to the Irish Natura- 
list (vols xxiii., p. 133, and xxiv., p. 91) embodying the information 
supplied him by Mr. MacGinley rfs to the rate at which the birds were 
increasing. In 1913 there were only 11 or 12 pairs ; in 1914 the number 
of birds was estimated at about 70, and in 1915 at about 100. The rapid 
increase of this bird, both at the Skelligs and elsewhere, is of the greater 
interest from its being such a slow-breeding species, laying only one egg 
per annum. 
C. B. Moffat. 
Ballyhyland, Enniscorthy. 
