. Ornithological miscellany . in the Zoologist, 3rd ser. Sept. 1877, p. 385 (Ornitho-logical Notes from Dorsetshire ), he says :— At one of these lakes [Poole and Studland] Pochards have bred forthe last three years. In the spring of 1875 a male Pochard, incapacitatedfrom accompanying his companions northwards by a fractured wing, wasfortunate enough to induce a female to remain with him, and a brood of youngred-heads appeared on the lake, which was so carefully and successfullywatched that the following year (1876) three broods were hatched. At p. 386 Mr. T. M. Pike, of Westport, Wareham, men
. Ornithological miscellany . in the Zoologist, 3rd ser. Sept. 1877, p. 385 (Ornitho-logical Notes from Dorsetshire ), he says :— At one of these lakes [Poole and Studland] Pochards have bred forthe last three years. In the spring of 1875 a male Pochard, incapacitatedfrom accompanying his companions northwards by a fractured wing, wasfortunate enough to induce a female to remain with him, and a brood of youngred-heads appeared on the lake, which was so carefully and successfullywatched that the following year (1876) three broods were hatched. At p. 386 Mr. T. M. Pike, of Westport, Wareham, mentions, in aninteresting article, that on a pool in the above county thirty Pochards hadbeen hatched this year; but the eels, or other fish, had destroyed the greaterpart of them. A writer in The Field, November 17th, 1877 (p. 574), records anunusually late brood of the common wild Duck at Rhiwlas, Bala: lastweek, while out shooting, he came across an old bird with twelve youngones. VOL. III. 21. ORNITHOLOGICAL MISCELL/^ J frlieiilemails Utn -ixrrD ENTRANCE OT KINGSTOV/N H/JIBOUR. SKETCHEr JULY 1S50. LARUS TRIDACTYLUS. (The Kittiwake Gull.) By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. (Plate CXI.) The lithograph is taken from a sketch made off Kingstown Harbour, Ireland,in 1850. On the south coast round Brighton we get fewer Kittiwakes than otherGulls; and I find them difficult to keep in the gullery here. One has con-trived, however, to hold its own for some years, and waddles about on itsshort legs among the more graceful Black-headed and common Gulls. When once the feeding-ofF is done (a dangerous time—just after theirarrival), we rarely lose an individual. Matrimonial differences, in spite of all precautions, sometimes cost alife in the spring; but our birds are very healthy, and we have some agedones among them. 2l 2 234 LARUS TRIDACTYLUS. On a bright day, with plenty of sun, a lot of Kittiwakes crowding ontoa buoy is at once a common and a pretty sight off Kingstown; and I have
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