254 BRITISH BIRDS. 



another near Foxford, co. Mayo, on 5th November, 1899 

 {Irish Nat., 1899, pp. 186 and 230 ; 1900, p. 22). 



NUTCRACKER Nucifraga caryocatactes (L.). S. page 233. 



Sussex. — One was shot on 21st December, 1900, at 

 Chilgrove, near Chichester (H. M. Langdale, ZooL, 1901, p. 

 107). This was a specimen of the typical N. caryocatactes. 



Kent. — A male was shot on 14th January, 1905, at 

 Benenden (N. F. Ticehurst, Bull. B.O.C., XV., p. 31). This 

 was also of the European form. 



Norfolk. — For a week in May, 1899, a Nutcracker fre- 

 quented a plantation of tall dark fir trees near Thetford 

 (J. H. Gurney, Zool, 1900, p. 106). 



Cheshire. — One was shot at Ilkley on 5th January, 1901, 

 and was identified as belonging to the slender-billed Siberian 

 form (W. R. Butterfield, Ibis, 1901, p. 737). 



Herefordshire. — One Avas obtained in September, 1901, 

 near Hereford (H. E. Forrest, Zool., 1902, p. 25). 



The Nutcracker is an irregular visitor to this country, 

 and both the thick-billed typical N. caryocatactes of Linnaeus 

 inhabiting the European Alps, and the slender-billed N. c. 

 macrorhyncus of Brehm, breeding in Siberia, visit our shores. 



In the autumn of 1900 the invasion of the Siberian race 

 into north-eastern Europe was spread over a large area, and 

 reached to Denmark and Holland, but the invasion was not 

 so large as that in 1844 (c/. Ibis, 1902, p. 172). 



HOODED CROW Corvus comix L. S. page 245. 



Suffolk. — A pair nested and reared a brood near LoA\estoft 

 in 1903 (E. A. Butler, Zool, 1903, p. 350). 



In Wales, where this species is rare at any time, a bird 

 paired with the Carrion-Crow, and reared young near 

 Bai'mouth, Merioneth (H. E. Forrest, Vert. Fauna N. Wales, 

 p. 186), and a similar instance is recorded near Llanwrtyd, 

 in Breconshire (E. Cambridge Phillips, Field, 7, ix., 1907). 



ROOK Corvus frugilegus L. S. page 247. 



The migrations of this species were worked out in detail 

 by Mr. Eagle Clarke, and published in the British Association's 

 Report for 1903. Briefiy summarized they are as follows : — 



1. Partial and irregular movements of our resident birds 

 beginning at the close of the nesting season and continuing 

 throughout the autumn, some probably leaving for the 

 continent. 



