222 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Moor-hen. — The bill loses its bright red colour for a month or 

 two in autumn. 



Fire- CRESTED Wren in Sussex. — Mr. B. C. R. Langford 

 reports to the Field (10. ix. 1910, p. 537) that a specimen of 

 Regulus ignicapillus was caught at Eastbourne, brouglit to 

 him for identification, and subsequently released uninjured on 

 September 4th, 1910. 



Red-backed Shrikes in Ireland. — Mr. R. M. Barrington 

 records {Irish Nat., 1910, p. 243) that an immature example 

 of Lanius collurio was taken on October 1st, 1908, at Wicklow 

 Head Lighthouse (this has already been recorded in our pages, 

 cf. Vol. II., p. 409), and that another immature bird was 

 captured on September 26th, 1910, at the Fastnet Rock 

 Lighthouse. The latter is the third occurrence of the species 

 in Ireland. 



Wryneck in Roxburgh. — Mr. Harvie-Bro\vn records 

 {Ann. 8.N.H., 1910, p. 248) an example of lynx torquilla as 

 shot at Jedburgh, but no date is given. 



Greenland Falcons in Sutherland and Ross. — -A male 

 Falco candicans was shot at Rogart, Sutherlandshire, on 

 March 8tli, 1910, and a young female was caught on the 

 Ardross Moors, Ross-shire, on March 9th, 1910 (Annie C. 

 Jackson, Ann. S.N.H., 1910, p. 246). 



Kestrel Catching a Bat. — During an excursion of the 

 Glasgow Natural History Society to Cassilis, in Ayrshire, 

 on March 26th, 1910, the members were fortunate enough 

 to see a Kestrel {F. tinnunculus) capture a Pipistrelle (F. 

 pipistrellus) , which had been disturbed from a tree- trunk 

 about noon and was flying about in the sunsliine {Glasgow 

 Nat., Vol. II., p. 137). 



Pinioned Whooper Swans Nesting in Shetland. — It 

 should be put on record that a pair of Whooper Swans, which 

 were wounded and afterwards pinioned, one in 1905 and the 

 other in 1907, have this year mated and hatched their young 

 in Shetland (T. Henderson, Junr., Ann. S.N.H., 1910, 

 p. 245). 



Ruddy Sheld-Ducks in Caithness. — Mr. David Bruce 

 exhibited to the Glasgow Natural History Society on May 31st, 

 1910, a pair of Tadorna casarca, which had been shot near 

 Scarsclet on June 27th, 1910 {Glasgow Nat., Vol. II., p. 134). 

 Whether these were genuine wild birds or not it seems 

 impossible to say. 



Eggs of the Reeve from Lancashire. — At the October 

 meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, Mr. P. F. Bunyard 

 exhibited a clutch of eggs taken in Lancashire on April 20th, 



