336 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Lapwing {Vanellus vulqaris). — B.B. No. 10761, marked by- 

 Mr. J. Hutton at Torrance, near Glasgow, on June 15th» 

 1910, as a nestling. Recovered at Gouran, co. Kilkenny, 

 Ireland, on February, 28th, 1911. Reported by Mr. P. 

 O'Malley. 



Common Tern [Sterna fltiviatilis). — B.B. No. 20265, marked 

 by Messrs. Robinson and Smalley at Ravenglass, Cumber- 

 land, on July 23rd, 1910, as a nestling. Recovered on 

 LaAvkland Moor, Clapham, Yorkshire, in September,^ 

 1910. Reported by Mr. William Fox. 



Black-headed Gulls {Larus ridihundas). — B.B. No. 9469, 

 marked by Mr. J. Murray (Gamekeeper to Mr. H. S, 

 Gladstone), at Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire, on June 26th. 

 1910, as a nestling. Recovered at Croft Spa, near 

 Darlington, Durham, on February 7th, 1911. Found 

 by Mr. T. Wall, and reported by Mr. J. H. Hutchinson. 

 B.B. No. 9489, marked by Mr." J. Murray, at Durisdeer, 

 Dumfriesshire, on June 29th, 1910, as a nestling. 

 Recovered near Perth on August 1st, 1910. Reported 

 by Mr. Geo. Willoaks. 



B.B. No. 30462, marked by Messrs. Robinson and Smalley 

 at Ravenglass, Cumberland, on June 13th, 1910, as a 

 nestling. Recovered at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, on 

 February 20th, 1911. Reported by Mr. Jas. Young. 

 B.B. No. 30545, marked by Messrs. RobinsonandSmalley 

 at Ravenglass, Cumberland, on June 13th, 1910, as a 

 nestling. Recovered at Morecambe Bay, near Ulverston, 

 Lancashire, in October, 1910. Reported by Mr. H. B. 

 Jurney. 



BLACK REDSTART IN ESSEX. 



As the Black Redstart (Ruticilla tiiys) is not of frequent 

 occurrence in Essex, it may be worth while recording that a 

 male, in dull, worn-looking plumage, was about my garden 

 (at Bradfield, near Manningtree) and the vicinity during the 

 afternoon of March 22nd, 1911. W^alter B. Nichols. 



CONTINENTAL GOLDCRESTS IN KENT, SUSSEX, 

 AND HAMPSHIRE. 



It would appear from the Migration Reports of the B.O.C. 

 Committee that large migrations of Goldcrests do not occur 

 every year. The autumn of 1910, however, proved to be 

 one of these years, and I therefore kept a special look-out for 

 birds of the Continental race. Mr. H. S. D. Byron, whom I 

 had asked to procure specimens of migrating Goldcrests, kindly 



