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the uplands the nest is also often placed in a tree, as I 
have known at Glenmay, in Laxey Glen, and Glen Roy, at 
Rhenass, Groudle, Block Eary, and the Spooyt Voar Glen 
(Glen Auldyn); and in the breeding season quite a number 
were seen together in the plantations of Injebreck by 
Mr. Graves and myself, and several nests, old and new, 
noticed. 
There was formerly a nesting place at Port Jack, just 
outside the town of Douglas; a pair, which was several 
times robbed in that one year, built in a cliff close to Laxey 
in 1895, and along the Lonan coast it is a particularly 
familiar breeding species; but there is no need to attempt 
to enumerate the sites, which occur at short intervals. An 
isolated rock, when sufficiently steep, is often favoured. 
The late Mr. T, H. Kinvig told me that Crows had nested 
on the low but steep Stack of Scarlett, as well as a little 
further west on the side of the ‘ Calig-Gully,’* curious sites, 
as the nest would be liable to be washed away in a south- 
west gale, which sends a furious sea right over these rocks. 
Off the parish of Santon there is a group of three ‘ stacks,’ 
on the top of one of which are traces of ancient walling. A 
pair of Crows breeds annually on one or other of these, and 
in 1899 all of them bore remains of nests. North of Peel, 
on one of a somewhat similar group, a nest was attempted 
in a singularly open situation, commanded by a much- 
frequented path, and a nest between Peel and Glenmay 
in 1895 was also very conspicuous, across a break in the 
brows from the higher cliff opposite, the green eggs show- 
ing brightly in its cup, This nest, owing doubtless to the 
nature of its position, was rather imperfectly formed. 
A nest in Lonan (Zool., 1896, p. 471) ‘stood only some 
ten feet above the high-water mark of a little creek. It 
* Calig= Pollock (Gadus pollachius). The deep water-basins and creeks of the 
Scarlett rocks are an immemorial fishing-ground of the people of Castletown. 
