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absence of white wing-patches led me to suppose that the 

 bird was an immature male. Its ruddy tail was in constant 

 motion. 



In December, 1910, and November, 1911, other birds of 

 this species were observed on the same headland and noted 

 in British Birds, and I feel that these three occurrences 

 in late autumn and early winter are not accidental, but 

 enable us to see fairly clearly that the bird is not so rare 

 in North Wales as is generally reputed. 



Richard W. Jones. 



CUCKOOS LAYING IN ROCK-PIPITS' NESTS. 

 With reference to the note on page 194, I may mention that 

 in June, 1895, Miss Dorrien-Smith sent me a Rock-Pipit's 

 nest containing two eggs of the owner and one of a Cuckoo. 

 It was taken at Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, where Antlius 

 s. obscurus is exceedingly common. Heatley Noble. 



With reference to the notes on pages 156 and 194 on this 

 subject, I should like to say that I found a Cuckoo's egg in 

 the nest of a Rock-Pipit in the Scilly Isles, in 1904. I have 

 also a clutch of Rock-Pipit's eggs from the Fame Islands, 

 with one egg very considerably larger than the others, 

 which may be a Cuckoo's. Horace Terry. 



GLOSSY IBISES IN ESSEX. 



Five Glossy Ibises {Egatheus f. jalcmellus) were shot on 

 October 14th, 1912, at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, out of 

 a party of six, by Mr. Woodruffe Eagle and his brother. 

 The sixth was, I understand, afterwards picked up dead by 

 somebody else. The five obtained by Mr. Eagle were two 

 adults and three birds of the year. 



Walter B. Nichols. 



NIGHT-HERON IN CHESHIRE. 



Mr. J. Moore recorded {antea, p. 156) a Night-Heron 

 {Nycticorax n. nycticomx) at Marbury Mere, near Northwich, 

 on July 31st, 1912. I visited the spot immediately after- 

 wards, but failed to find trace of the bird and concluded that 

 it had left. I can now, however, confirm the identification 

 (if that be necessary) for the decomposed remains of a 

 Night-Heron— presumably the one seen by Mr. Moore — were 

 discovered in a reed-bed by the mere by Mr. John Hindley, 

 the gamekeeper, on November 3rd. The skull and sternum 

 are intact, but the feet are missing, possibly having been 

 shot away by some gunner, who wounded but lost the bird. 

 Many of the ash-grey flight -feathers are still attached to the 



