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Visiting the spot on June 17th I was glad to find four healthy 

 young ia the nest, and my second photograph shows them 

 being fed in their new surroundings, and it can be distinctly 

 seen that the nest has been repaired. 



The trials of these unfortunate birds seemed endless, for, 

 whilst taking my photograj)!!, I was discovered by a boy, 

 whom from past experiences I had every reason to fear, so had 

 to resort to a ruse to protect my proteges. Removing the nest, 

 I let the boy see me jiut rings on tlie young, then, telling him 

 I was taking them home with me, wished him good-day- 

 Wlien the young rascal was well out of sight, I held the nest 

 in my hand and enticed the old birds to a thick hedge, where 

 once more the nest was securely placed. Then I retreated a 

 short distance, and in less than five minutes both parents had 

 transferred the cateqjillars they had been holding during the 

 ringing, etc., to the young. 



It was nearly a week later when the young left the nest, and 

 I had the satisfaction of seeing all four on the wing. 



This incident shows how birds vary in temperament, for the 

 Lesser Whitethroat is as a rule one of our most timid birds. 



H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER IN SUFFOLK. 



On September 3rd, when walking along the edge of the low 

 cliffs about a mile to the north of Southwold, a small bird 

 rose almost at my feet, and settled on a plant a few yards 

 away, allowing me a short but very clear view. The bright 

 greenish-yellow colour, double bar on wings and eye-streak 

 showed that it was undoubtedly a Yellow-browed Warbler 

 {Phylloscopus superciliosus), a bird not previously recorded for 

 this county, though there are several Norfolk records. It flew 

 away, and I lost sight of it in a field of cabbages. 



Julian G. Tuck. 



PIED FLYCATCHERS IN SUSSEX. 

 Although it is probable that a few Pied Flycatchers 

 [Muscicapa atricapilla) pass through Sussex on the spring 

 migration every year, they have so seldom been detected that 

 individual records are still of value. It is only by the gradual 

 accumulation of these that we can hope to come to any definite 

 conclusion as to the status of the scarcer visitors in the county 

 and the routes they follow in their seasonal movements. 



On April 29th I saw a single female at West St. Leonards 

 (the first Pied Flycatcher I have ever seen alive in Sussex), 

 and have since heard from Mr. Curtis Edwards that he has 

 this spring obtained an adult male from a boy at Rye Harbour, 

 who killed it with a stone there on May 18th. N. F. Ticehurst. 



