NOTES. 209 



Common Gull [Larus cawws).— B.B., No. 9803, marked by 

 Mr. W. I. Beaumont at Stirk Island, off Lismore, Lynn 

 of Lorn, Argyllshire, on July 8th, 1910, as a nestling. 

 Recovered at Port Stewart, co. Londonderry, on 

 November 22nd, 1910. Reported by Mr. W. J. McGirgan. 



BARRED WARBLER IN NORFOLK. 



On September 27th, 1910, an immature Barred Warbler 

 {Sylvia nisoria) was shot in east Norfolk. Mr. E. C. Arnold 

 states [Zool., 1910, p. 393) that he noticed a Barred Warbler 

 on September 20th at the identical spot. I have communicated 

 with Mr. F. I. Richards, who considers it unlikely that this 

 was the individual that he was fortunate enough subsequently 

 to obtam. I exhibited the specimen on behalf of Mr. Richards 

 at the October meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club 

 (c/. Bull. B.O.C., XXVII., p. 16). Clifford Borrer. 



YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER IN LINCOLNSHIRE. 



On October 3rd, 1910, I shot a Yellow-browed Warbler 

 {Phylloscopus swperciliosus) in the bottom of a thick liedge 

 near the sea-bank at North Cotes, Lincolnshire. The bird 

 was a male and very fat. There was no migration in progress 

 at the time as a heavy westerly gale was blo\\ing, but there 

 was a light east wind on the night of the 1st. This is 

 the fourth Lincolnshire example of this little warbler. I 

 obtained it for the first time on October 7th, 1892, and from 

 that time I saw no more of the species for sixteen years, 

 when I found one dead on the coast on October 19th, 1908, 

 and shot a third on October 12th of the following year, all 

 four examples having been killed within a mile of the same 

 spot. G. H. Caton Haigh. 



THREE OR FOUR LONG-TAILED TITS TO ONE NEST. 



In connection with the observation of Mr. Smith Whiting 

 on the above subject in the August number of British Birds 

 (p. 78) and the previously recorded cases of Mr. Bonhote and 

 Mr. Cerva (British Birds, Vol. I., pp. 32 and 62), it is 

 interesting to recall what is probably the earliest published 

 instance of the kind. A. G. C. Tucker, in his Ornithologia 

 Danmoniensis (1809), of which the unfinished Introduction 

 was the only part that ever saw the light, states (p. xlviii.) 

 that the Long-tailed Titmouse is the only excej^tion known 

 to him to the rule that but one pair of birds joins in nidification 

 and incubation ; and in a footnote he gives his proof of this 

 statement : — " In the ye?.r 1798 the author, in taking a walk 



