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vicinity, and he again observed them several times in 1904, 
in which year (3rd September) he met with one also on 
Glenmay stream. 
Generally distributed in mountainous parts of the 
British Isles, the Dipper is common on the mountain 
streams of Ireland ; it is abundant in Galloway, and frequent 
in suitable localities in north-western England. Mr. Aplin 
found it, not commonly, in Lleyn. Mr. Coward found a 
nest in Anglesea in 1904, the only time, as Mr, Oldham 
writes me, that he and his colleague have met with the 
bird on that island. In Orkney and Shetland it is scarcely 
known, but it breeds on some at least of the Outer Hebrides, 
where, however, it is perhaps rare. 
ACREDULA ROSEA (Blyth). 
BRITISH LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 
The appearance and nidification of this species are both 
so distinctive that it can hardly be said that it is for lack 
of observation that it is not better known in Man. 
Two specimens obtained near Douglas in 1877, out of a 
flock of about eight, and which were in the possession of 
Mr. Graves, seem to have been the earliest known to 
have occurred. In December 1882, as recorded by Mr. 
Kermode, Mr. Colquhoun shot one near Douglas, out of a 
flock of twenty. The Manz Sun reported another specimen 
procured about the same town in the following spring. 
In May 1886 the late Mr. T. H. Kinvig, of Castletown, 
informed Mr. Kermode that there was a nest in his garden 
there,’ and ‘the nest has since been taken at Glenduff, 
1 [ think that this statement, however, is very likely the result of some mis- 
understanding. The sudden and regretted death of Mr. Kinvig has prevented 
its verification or otherwise. 
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