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AQUATIC WARBLER IN NORFOLK. 



A FEMALE Aquatic Warbler {Acrocephalus aquaticus) was 

 obtained on Blakcney golf course on October 23rd, 1912. 

 It was unfortunately much damaged with large shot, but 

 Mr. Pashley, of Cley, has successfully mounted it. The last 

 occasion when the Aquatic Warbler occurred in this neigh- 

 bourhood was in 1903. when my friend, Mr. Gilmour Richards, 

 shot a bird (now in his father's collection at Ealing) on 

 September 21st. Previous to that a specimen A\as killed by 

 INIi". Gunn, the Norwich naturalist, all three within a mile or 

 two of the same spot. Clifford Borrer. 



BARRED WARBLERS IN SUFFOLK AND NORFOLK. 



On August 28th, 1912, I had on several occasions a good 

 view of a Barred Warbler {Sylvia nisoria) on the Lowestoft 

 Denes, Suffolk. The bird was shy and on near approach 

 invariably dived into the thick brambles. The woodcut 

 in Saunders's Manual of the young bird shows a very tj^ical 

 position. 



On the 27th there was a gentle north-east wind following 

 the hurricane of the previous day. The morning of the 

 28th was calm. On the same morning there was a fairly 

 large influx of Wr^Tiecks, suggesting that these had j)erhaps 

 come in from the north-east with the Barred Warbler, which 

 species is found in south Sweden and is not uncommon in 

 parts of Denmark. This is the first recorded occurrence 

 in Suffolk. C. B. Ticehurst. 



On September 3rd, 1912, my brother, G. F. Arnold, shot an 

 immature female Barred Warbler at Blakeney. The wind 

 was blowing from the north-west at the time, and in my 

 experience this is usually the direction of the wind when 

 Barred Warblers appear. The bird in flight looks like a 

 large Spotted Flycatcher. E. C. Arnold, 



[I understand that three more Barred Warblers in similar 

 plumage were taken in the same locality, and about the 

 same time as the one referred to by Mr. Arnold. One 

 was obtained on the same day, September 3id, and the 

 other two a few days afterwards. — H.F.W.] 



DARTFORD WARBLER IN IRELAND. 



Although birds of greater rarity have ])een obtained at 

 Irish Light stations, probably no more interesting bird has 

 occurred than the Dartford Warbler which was caught at 

 the Tuskar Lighthouse, co. Wexford, by Mr. A. O'Leary, 

 lightkeeper, on October 27th, 1912, and sent to me in the 

 flesh as an unlaiown bird. 



