NOTES. 127 



Novembei', not at all uncommon from Malpas to King Harry 

 Passage. 1906, November, seen near Bissoe {ZooL, 1907, 

 p. 282). 



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Melodious Warbler in Cornwall. — An adult male was 

 shot on May 12th, 1905, near Sandplace, Looe, and identified by 

 Dr. Clark. It was shot by a farmer " so that people should not 

 laugh at us when we said we had heard the Nightingale in 

 Cornwall" {Zool., 1907, p. 282). 



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Late Stat of Swallows, House- and Sand-Martins in 

 Hampshire. — Mr. Harry Beeston gives (Zool., 1907, pp. 227-234, 

 267-271, 303-306) some very full details of the late stay of some 

 examples of these species near Havant in 1905 and 1906. He 

 comes to the conclusion that the birds deliberately stayed on 

 because of a plentiful supply of food, and he believes that if 

 our winters were only a few degrees milder they would winter 

 with us. But, as so few individuals lingered, this seems an 

 unwise argument, and it is much more likely that they were 

 prevented for some physical reason from imdertaking the long 

 journey south, and that the abundance of food enabled them to 

 live longer than is usual in these cases. Briefly, the observations 

 are as follows :- -1905, November 18th, six Swallows and one 

 Sand-Martin; 19th, five Swallows ; 20th, one; 21st to 23rd, two; 

 24th to December 8th, one. 1906, November 11th, three House- 

 Martins ; 18th, five Swallows ; 25th, three Swallows, two House- 

 and one Sand-Martin ; 27th, two Swallows ; 28th, five Swallows; 

 November 29th to December 21st. one Swallow and two Sand- 

 Martins were seen fairly regularly, except that the Swallow 

 disappeared on December 12th and reappeared on the 21st, only 

 to disappear finally on the next day. On the 29th only one 

 Sand-Martin was left, and this survived until January 23rd, 1907, 

 when it was seen for the last time. 



