Ui BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vi. 



CHIFFCHAFFS AND WHEATEAR IN WINTER IN 

 THE BRITISH ISLES. 



I SAW and heard two or three Chiffchaffs {Phylloscopus 

 collybila) at Farringford near Freshwater, Isle of Wight, on 

 February 22nd, 1913. I also saw a Wheatear {(Ena7ithe 

 oenanthe) on Freshwater do^\^l on the same day. 



E. G. B. Meade- Waldo. 



A FRIEND of mine, Mr. Evan T. Jones, informs me that he 

 listened to a Chiffchaff {Phylloscopus c. collyhita) singing, 

 though somewhat fitfully, in Bodafon Wood, Creuddyn 

 Peninsula, Carnarvon, on February 15th, 1913, and that 

 he subsequently heard the bird in the same wood on some 

 two or three occasions between that date and the middle 

 of March. There can be no doubt as to the accuracy of his 

 identification of the song, for we have both listened to the 

 bhd when walking together through the woods at Gloddaeth. 



Richard W. Jones. 



AQUATIC WARBLER AND MARSH- WARBLER IN 

 THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



Among the birds forwarded to me (for the Osborne College 

 collection) during last summer from St. Catherine's Light- 

 house, Isle of Wight, were specimens of the Marsh- Warbler 

 [Acrocephalus palustris) and Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalns 

 aquaticus), the former having been obtained on June 7th and 

 the latter on August 17th, 1912. Both birds were males in fine 

 plumage and are now in the Osborne College collection. 



This appears to be the fourth specimen of the Aquatic 

 Warbler obtained in the Isle of Wight. The INIarsh- Warbler 

 may not be so rare as is supposed, but possibly this record 

 may be of interest. A. iM. C. Nicholl. 



[The Marsh-Warbler recorded above should be carefully 

 compared as there is the possibility of its being an exam]ile of 

 Blyth's Reed-Warbler {AcroceplMlus dtimetortim). Unfortu- 

 nately, owing to the bird being cased \Aith others, Mr. Nicholl 

 is unable to send it to us for comparison. — Eds.] 



BLACK REDSTART IN SURREY. 

 On February 20th, 1913, I saw near the Kent House, Buck- 

 fields, Penge, a Black Redstart {Phoenicurus o. gihraltariensis). 

 It was not very wild, but I cannot state the sex as it uas in 

 immature-plumage, and several birds I have had under 

 notice which agreed in all particulars with adult hens in 

 winter, moulted out " cocks." Allen Silver 



