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in the " territory " of any of the males, and two of these nests 

 were only thirteen yards apart. He gives exact details of the 

 positions of twenty-one nests, dates of the laying of the eggs, 

 and the number of eggs laid (ten of &ix, four each of five and 

 seven, one each of four and eight) and young hatched 

 (only one egg out of one hundred and twenty failed to hatch). 

 In four cases there were apparently second broods — two of 

 four and two of three eggs each. Among several interesting 

 cases of nests in one year being near the site of a nest in a 

 pre\aous year, the following is remarkable : — In 1908 a nest 

 was built two feet from the ground in a spruce-bush ; in 1909 

 there was a nest within twenty yards of this site ; in 1910 

 one ^^athin eight ysrds of the 1909 site, and a second brood 

 in the same year was actually reared in the 1908 nest, which 

 Avas sheltered and had remained intact and only required 

 rehning with feathers. Mr Brock also gives much valuable 

 information on the sexual habits of the birds, incubation, 

 feeding of the young, nature of the food, and habits of the 

 young after fledging. 



Hen-Harrier in Cheshire. — An immature female Circus 

 cyaneus is recorded by Mr. A. Newstead (ZooL, 1911, p. 113) 

 as having been shot near Broxton, but the date is doubtful. 

 The bird is now only a rare wanderer to Cheshire (c/. Vert. F. 

 Cheshire, p. 282). 



Glossy Ibis in Yorkshire. — Mr. E. W. Wade records 

 (Nat., 1911, p. 116) that a specimen of Plegadis falcinellus was 

 obtained about the second week of October, 1909, at Ulrome. 

 This is additional to the examples already recorded as having 

 occurred in various parts of Yorkshire about the same time 

 {vide Vol. III., pp. 229, 230 and 308). 



Changes of Plumage in the Red Grouse. — A lengthy 

 paper on this subject by Dr. E. A. Wilson, with twenty-four 

 coloured plates from his own drawings, appears in Part IV. 

 of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1910 (pp. 1000- 

 1033). Dr. Wilson's paper is founded upon the material 

 collected for the Grouse Disease Inquiry, and describes not only 

 the sequence of the plumages of both male and female, but 

 the ''■ local variations," the effect of disease upon the plumage, 

 and the order of growth of the primaries in the young bird. 

 The paper has been revised by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant in 

 the absence of Dr. Wilson in the Antarctic 



Glaucous Gull in Carnarvonshire. — An immature 

 example of Larus glaucus was shot on February 23rd, 1911, 

 at Deganwy (A. Newstead, ZooL, 1911, p. 117). The bird is 

 a rare visitor to northern Wales. 



