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rabbits' fur, and a few feathers. It contained four eggs, marked precisely the 

 same as the description given in the work above mentioned, which I have 

 much pleasure in recommending as being one of the cheapest and hest works 

 on British ornithology. 



Singular situation for the Nest of the Chiff Chaff, (Sylvia hippolais.) — On 

 the 11th. of May, I saw a nest of the ChifiF Chaff built in a furze bush, at 

 an elevation of two feet six inches— it contained four eggs. I have since 

 found one built in some brambles about a foot from the ground, containing 

 three pure white eggs; both of these nests were not merely arched, but com- 

 pletely covered over, similar to the Common Wren's, only the aperture was 

 rather larger. They were both built of dried grass and dead leaves, and lined 

 with feathers and horse- hair. 



Common Lark, (Alauda arvensis.) — In confirmation of the fact related by 

 the Rev. R. P. Alington, in "The Naturalist," vol. i., page 58, I beg to state 

 that I have several times seen the Sky Lark perched on a hedge; and on 

 Sunday, May 7th., I saw perched on a furze bush on Bow Brickhill Heath, 



Bucks., 



"The morning Lark, the messenger of day, 

 Saluting with her song the morning gray." 



Arrival of some of the Summer Birds of Passage in the neighbourhood of 

 Wohurn, Beds. — Chiff Chaff, {Sylvia hippolais,) April 2nd. Sand Martin, 

 (Hirundo riparia,) April 7th. Martin, {Hirundo urhica,) April 11th. Chimney 

 Swallow, {Hirundo rustica,) April 16th. Whitethroat, {Curruca cinerea,) 

 April 16th. Cuckoo, {Cuculus canorus,) April 16th. Nightingale, {Sglvia 

 luscinia,) April 21st. Reed Warbler, {Salicaria arundinacea,) April 29th. 

 Sedge Warbler, {Salicaria phragmitis,) April 29th. Swift, {Hirundo apus,) 

 May 10th. 



The Nightingale and Sedge Warbler are very plentiful in this locality this 

 year. 



Wohurn, Beds., May 20th., 1854. 



OCCURRENCE AND CAPTURE OF A FEW RAR^ 

 AVES AND PISCES AT FRASERBROUGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. 



BY MB. T. EDWARD. 



During the evening of the 10th., or morning of the 11th. of October, 

 1853, a specimen of the Ring Ouzel, {Tardus torquatus,) a female, and a 

 Lesser Redpole, {Linaria minor,) a male, struck against the lighthouse, or, as 

 it is better known in Fraserbrough and neighbourhood by the term of "The 

 Old Castle," and were killed. Though both these birds breed in the higher 

 districts of the county, the former rather sparingly, but the latter rather 

 numerously, still they are not known to do so near the quarter where they 

 were obtained, nor even to be occasional visitors there. 



