RING OUZEL 13 
1885; one shot at Tromode, October 1884; and another at 
Ballure, 8th April 1886. Single specimens are recorded at 
the Chickens Light, 3rd October 1886, and at Langness, 
10th April 1887, so that the species may be said to 
appear over the whole island in both spring and autumn, 
though, like many other species, more plentifully in the 
latter. 
Communications recently received from Maughold, how- 
ever, throw a new light on the standing of the Ring Ouzel 
in Man. Mr. A. Allison, who, some thirty years ago, worked 
Park Llewellyn, an extensive and wild tract of sheep-farm 
between the Cornah and Glen Auldyn valleys, says that he 
is certain that it regularly bred there, and that one nest in 
particular, without doubt belonging to the species, was 
situated on a dangerous slip of mine refuse at Glen Cherry. 
This is confirmed by Messrs. A. and T. Haddon, the present 
occupants of Park Llewellyn, who write me that there is 
no doubt whatever in the matter, Mr. T. Haddon has seen 
their nests and young. 
The Ring Ouzel will likely be found as a resident, though 
sparingly, elsewhere in Man. 
In Wales, in the hilly districts of the north and west of 
England, of Scotland, and of Ireland, the Ring Ouzel is, 
though in many places not abundantly, a regular summer 
resident. In other parts of England, and in the more 
remote Scottish islands, it is rare or absent as a breeding 
species, but is known to some extent as a migrant all over 
the British Isles. Mr. Service states that in Kirkcud- 
brightshire it is frequent; on the highlands of north- 
western England it is well distributed, if not very numerous ; 
and it breeds in small numbers on the mountains of Down 
and Antrim, while in Donegal it is particularly abundant— 
in all these districts a nesting species; its rarity as such 
in Man is somewhat striking. 
