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awnings and also some Warblers, which would, not settle to 

 enable me to identify them. A Linnet was also noted by a 

 passenger. 



About mid-day we steamed into Port Said, and my subse- 

 quent observations, therefore, lie outside the scope of tlie 

 present notes. H. A. F. Magrath. 



[The importance of studying geographical races in connec- 

 tion with migration-observations does not yet seem to be 

 fully realized. Major Magrath's most interesting observations 

 would have been far more valuable had he preserved a few of 

 the specimens which came on board, so that we might have 

 known, for example, whether the Goldcrests and Song- 

 Thrushes were of the British or Continental race. — Eds.] 



REMOVAL OF FMCES BY BIRDS. 

 Referring to Mr. H. W. Ford-Lindsay's notes on this 

 subject (supra, p. 210), I have observed the removal of the 

 fceces by the following birds : Swallow, Starling, and Spotted 

 Flycatcher. Mr. R. Kearton's moving pictures of birds 

 distinctly show that the Song-Thrush swallows the fceces, and 

 he tells me that other films prove that the Wryneck removes 

 and the Mistle-Thrush swallows the fceces. 



John R. B. Masefield. 



NOTES ON HAMPSHIRE BIRDS. 



Spoonbill {Platalea leucorodia). — Two out of a party of three 

 were shot at Beaulieu on November 5th, 1906. 



Shoveler [Spatula clypeata). — Since the publication of the 

 Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by the Rev. J. E. 

 Kelsall and P. W. Munn, nests of this species have frequently 

 been found at Beaulieu, and the fact that at least two pairs 

 regularly breed there is well established. 



Black-tailed Godwit [Limosa belgica). — In the Birds of 

 Hampshire the Black-tailed Godwit is referred to as ?.n 

 occasional visitor to the Hampshire coast, but at Beaulieu 

 I think we should class it as a regular autumn-migrant. I 

 have myself seen it there almost every year. I recollect the 

 late John Penn shooting a Black-tailed and a Bar- tailed 

 Godwit at one shot at Beaulieu in October, 1898. 



Thomas H. C. Troubridge. 



CONTINENTAL ROBINS, SONG-THRUSHES, AND 

 GOLDCRESTS IN EAST ANGLIA, YORKSHIRE, 

 LINCOLNSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 

 On September 14th, 1910, with a rush of Redstarts, Pied 

 Flycatchers, Garden- Warblers and Blackcaps, some Conti- 

 nental Robins {Erithacus r. rubecula) arrived at Lowestoft, 



