ADDENDA. 
PASSER MONTANUS. TREE SPARROW. 
In 1905 Mr. Leach observed Tree Sparrows at Oakhill, near 
Port Soderick. In the spring of the same year I found a small 
colony at the Scarlett limestone quarries, and during the summer 
Mr. Graves and I noted the species in quite a number of 
localities in the south of the island, as at the old limekilns at 
Billown (where it was doubtless breeding), in Castletown, at 
Strandhall and Mount Gawne; on the Calf, near the ruined 
buildings in the ‘Glen,’ and at Port Grenaugh, Santon (near Sea- 
field, where Mr. Bacon had previously found it). There were only 
a few at each place. At Scarlett one nest (and likely more) was 
placed in the high wall which retains the quarry road, and is built 
up from rocky ledges on the shore, against which at high tide the 
sea washes ; the nest at this time being directly over the water, 
about fifteen feet below. 
_ It seems probable that further observation will show that the 
Tree Sparrow is dispersed over the entire island. 
STURNUS VULGARIS. STARLING. 
The following extract from the Isle of Man Times is perhaps 
sufficiently curious to justify insertion :— 
RESOLUTE STARLINGS.—A PITY TO DISTURB THEM. 
To the Editor. 
We have at the brewery an escape steam-pipe, nine inches in diameter, 
leading from the copper through a wall to the open air. Every Monday 
this pipe is cleaned, before using it during the week to convey hot steam 
from the boiling copper. For the past three Mondays part of a starling’s 
nest has been cleared out from it; the birds having been building from 
Friday in each week, which is the last day steam passes through it. 
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