NOTES. 79 



nest. I am not certain about the sexes, but one bird with an 

 extra long tail (photograph enclosed) I took to be a cock, and 

 two others, which also fed assiduously, I thought were hens. 



On coming out of the tent I laid up close to the nest and 

 distinctly saw all the three bu'ds near the nest at the same 

 time with food. Smith Whiting. 



[Cases of four adult Long-tailed Tits at one nest were 

 referred to in Vol. I., pp. 32 and 62. Instances of three birds 

 in attendance on the young in one nest have come under my 

 notice, both in the case of the Long-tailed Tit, and the Swallow 

 {Hirundo rustica). In both cases the number of young was 

 normal. — F.C.R.J.] 



GOLDEN ORIOLES IN DERBYSHIRE, WESTMORLAND 

 AND FIFESHIRE. 



On May 20th, 1910, I received a letter from Mr. C. H. WeUs, 

 in which he informed me that a pair of Golden Orioles {Oriolus 

 galbula L.) had been seen at Cratcliff Tor, near Bakewell, and 

 that the male bird had unfortunately been killed. Sub- 

 sequent inquiry showed that the two birds were seen on May 

 14th ; the male was killed by a small boy, but had been bat- 

 tered about the head by Jackdaws which were pursuing it. 

 The other bird disappeared and has not been seen since. On 

 examining the cock bird I found that it was not in fully adult 

 plumage, but retained the median stripes on the breast- 

 feathers, and had the back washed with dusky-olive instead 

 of bright golden-yellow. F. C. R. Jourdain. 



[An immature male was picked up dead at Brathay, near 

 Windermere, on May 16th, 1909 (D. L. Thorpe and L. E. 

 Hope, Zool., 1910, p. 184). This appears to be the first 

 recorded occurrence of this bird in Westmorland. It will 

 be remembered that a Golden Oriole was got in Dumfriesshire 

 on April 30th, 1909 (c/. Vol. III., p. 379). An adult was found 

 dead on May 16th, 1910, in the policies of Dhuloch House, 

 Inverkeithing, Fifeshire (W. Eagle Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1910, p. 182).— H.F.W.] 



A RED-BACKED SHRIKE'S "LARDER." 



On June 19tli, 1910, I went with a gamekeeper into a wood 

 at Castle Rising, Norfolk, to see a nest which he had found 

 of a Red-backed Shrike [Lanius collurio). The nest was in 

 an elder bush and was about five feet from the ground, and 

 contained five eggs, which had been incubated for about a 

 week. The keeper had not found the " larder," but after a few 

 minutes' search we found it in a hawthorn tree about twenty- 



