NOTES. 83 



IRRUPTION OF CROSSBILLS. 



Kent. — On June 26th, 1910, I saw three lots of Crossbills in 

 the same locality near Tenterden, as those referred to 

 by Dr. C. B. Ticehurst {antea, p. 53). Two of the lots 

 were small, containing seven and four birds respectively ; 

 while the third was a flock of some twenty birds. They 

 were all wild and restless, feeding for a few minutes only 

 at one spot, and then flying off for some distance ; their 

 habits in this respect differing markedly from those 

 watched early in the year, and suggesting that the birds 

 were on the move and their visit merely that of passing 

 migrants {N. F. Ticehurst). 



Norfolk. — On May 30th, 1910, I saw twenty-six Crossbills 

 near Potter Heigham {E. L. Turner). They appear to 

 have left the S waff ham district, the last being seen on 

 June 15th (Rev. E. T. Daubeney). 



St. Kilda. — Immediately on my arrival at St. Kilda on 

 July 7th, 1910, I saw a child playing with a small bird. 

 On examination this proved to be a Crossbill in a starved 

 condition. The child told me that he had found it on 

 the shore a few minutes before I landed. It was so 

 weak from want of food that it was not able to fly. One 

 of the natives told me that there were plenty of the same 

 kind of birds on the island, but I found that he thought 

 it was a Sparrow with a deformed beak ! I think this is 

 the first record for the Crossbill on St. Kilda [0. G. Pike). 



Surrey. — A party of four on the North Downs near Wolding- 

 ham on June 26th, 1910, and two at Limpsfield on July 

 17th [Howard Bentham). 



Warwickshire. — A flock of fifteen in the Earlswood district 

 (no date). A flock on December 18th, 1909, at Stratford- 

 on-Avon (F. Coburn, North Staffs. F. Club Rep., Vol. 

 XLIV., p. 113). 



Worcestershire. — Plentiful at Stourport (no date) (F. 

 Coburn, North Staffs. F. Club Rep., Vol. XLIV., p. 113). 



Westmorland. — A pair on April 30th, 1910, one on May 2nd 

 and a flock of fifteen to twenty about May 10th at Ray- 

 rigg Wood, Windermere {D. G. Garnett). 



LARGE CLUTCH OF EGGS OF THE WRYNECK. 



The large number of fourteen eggs was laid by a Wryneck 

 [lynx torquilla) this season at Pett, Sussex, all of which were 

 duly hatched out, but, unfortunately, the hole in the tree 

 being very small, the young were nearly all suffocated, only 

 five being eventually reared. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



