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markings are in different specimens of the same bird. 

 During the summer I found a nest in some ivy con- 

 taining same milk-white eggs ; on revisiting it I found it 

 to be a Kobin's, as the old bird was sitting. I saw the 

 young birds also after they were hatched. In a house- 

 sparrow's nest, among three eggs marked as usual I 

 found one with the spots of a light red colour, in every 

 other respect it resembled the rest." — J. F. Streatfield, 

 Chart's Edge, near Westerham {Zoologist, 184G, p. 1393). 



Genus DAULIAS, F. Bole. 



GREATEE NIGHTINGALE. 



Daulias pliilomela (Bechstein). Ornith. Tascli. 

 Vug. DeutscJi. (180-2-3). 



In the last two lines of his article on the Nightingale, 

 in the fourth edition of Yarrell's British Birds, Professor 

 Newton has expressed his opinion that " there is no 

 sufficient reason for supposing that the larger Nightin- 

 gale of Eastern Europe has ever visited this country." 



The only record, which is certainly very slight, of the 

 Greater Nightingale having visited Kent, is published in 

 the Zoologist, 1896 (pp. 192-3), and added to this work on 

 its own merits : — 



Greater Niglitingale in Kent. — AVriting from Frin- 

 sted, Kent, on May 5, 1896, Mr. Gervesse F. Mathew 

 says : " I saw a couple of queer warblers yesterday, and, 

 while they are fresh in my memory, will describe them. 

 They were considerably larger than Nightingales, stoutly 

 and robustly built, of a smoky olive-grey colour, under 

 parts lighter ; tail short and square ; beak strong, 



