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Red-footed Falcon [Falco v. vespertinus). — One was 

 brought into Yarmouth on June 1st. 



Spoonbill {Platalea I. leucorodia). — One or two were seen 

 on May 23rd and from 25th to 31st ; one on June 6th ; two 

 from June 22nd to 27th — at various places in the county. 



Stone-Curlew {Burhinus ce. oedicnemus). — One seen by 

 the Rev. M. C. Bird on January 2nd near the coast, and the 

 same bird again seen on January 20th. 



Red-necked Phalarope {Phalaropus lobatus). — One at 

 Yarmouth on September 15th. 



AvocET {Recurvirostra avosetta). — One at Breydon on July 

 I5th and 16th. 



Common Curlew [Numenius a. arquata). — Mr. N. Tracy 

 was shown a nest with three broken eggs near LjTin on May 

 31st (c/. nesting-record for 1910, Vol. IV., p. 88). 



Common Snipe {Gallinago g. gallinago). — A nest with three 

 eggs was reported by the Rev. M. C. Bird on March 3rd, a 

 remarkably early date (c/. Vol. V., p. 336). 



Hooded Crow in Herefordshire. — A Hooded Crow 

 (Corvus c. cornix) was caught on the Titley estate on April 

 17th, 1912. Only six previous occurrences of the bird in the 

 county appear to be recorded (E. Cambridge Phillips, Field, 

 11 V.12, p. 941). 



White Wagtails in East Ross. — Two specimens of 

 Motacilla a. alba were obtained by Miss A. C. Jackson, on 

 September 16th, 1911, on the coast at Tarbatness {Scot. 

 Nat., 1912, p. 90). The White Wagtail has seldom been 

 recorded from north-east Scotland. 



Willow- and Marsh-Tits in Northumberland. — Mr. 

 George Bolani has kindly sent me for publication the following 

 extract from the appendix to his forthcoming work on Birds 

 of Northumberland and the Borders. 



Urged by Mr. H. F. Witherby, whose interest in tracing out the 

 distribution of these birds is so well known, and who has most kindly 

 examined the specimens in order to confirm my identification, I am able 

 to state that a bird from my collection, now in the Museum at Newcastle 

 (and for the loan of which I am indebted to Mr. E. Leonard Gill), which 

 I shot near Allerdean Mill on 8th January, 1888, is a typical brown- 

 headed example of the Willow-Tit. Its sex was not noted at the time, 

 but my journal shows that it was one of a pair of birds which were 

 frequenting the tall hedge running down the march between Scremerston 

 and Unthank, where I used for many years to be accustomed to see a 

 nest or two of these birds in the stumps of the ancient whitethorns. 

 Scattered pairs breed in several places in that locality, as at Allerdean, 

 Straker Strad, and Ancroft, as well as a little further afield in Berrington, 

 and Haiden Denes, and elsewhere, and I have little doubt that some a 

 least of these will turn out to be Willow-Tits. I have preserved several 

 of them at different times in years gone by, but no more of these are 



