OTES 



THE "PEEWIT" NOTE OF THE GREENFINCH. 



On June 10th, 1912, my brother called my attention to the 

 note of a bird in our garden at Lynmouth, Devon, like that 

 of a Peewit, which he had heard for some days but could 

 not identify. On the next day I again heard it from the 

 middle of a holly-bush. My brother, however, found in the 

 Rev. C. A. John's British Birds in their Haunts (edition 

 of 1862) the following passage in reference to the Greenfinch 

 {Chloris chloris) : " Another of the notes is a double one 

 and closely resembles that of the Peewit, hence it is called 

 in some places ' Peesweep.' " I had seen a Greenfinch, which 

 is not a common bird here, on May 16th, and I am sure that 

 a pair nested in the neighbourhood, for I heard the cries 

 of the young birds, and on June 16th saw the male uttering 

 this note from the bough of a tree. I do not know whether 

 the note is an unusual one or confined to the breeding-season 

 only, but I had never heard it before, and as it is a very 

 singular and striking note I was surprised not to find it more 

 generally mentioned in the description of this bird in other 

 books. T. H. Briggs. 



RICHARD'S PIPIT IN LINCOLNSHIRE. 



Although the late Mr. J. Cordeaux recorded having seen 

 an example of Richard's Pipit {Anthus r. richardi) \vhen dri\ang 

 along the road between Tetney and the coast, the species 

 does not appear to have been actually obtained in Lincohi- 

 shire until November 16th, 1912, when I shot a specimen on 

 the sea-bank in the parish of IVIarshchapel. Its long legs 

 and the rapidity with which it ran rendered it very con- 

 spicuous at a considerable distance. It was in good condi- 

 tion, and very Avild. Migration was practically over, but 

 I saw a Goldcrest on the same day, and a few Lapwings were 

 coming in from the sea with a light east Avind. 



G. H. Caton Haigh. 



WILLOW-TIT IN DUMFRIESSHIRE. 



A Tit, kindly identified for me by Mr. H. F. Witherby as a 

 Willow-Tit {Parus a. kUinschmidti) , was shot at Grennan 

 (Dumfriesshire) on January 25th, 1913. 



Hugh S. Gladstone. 



