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PROBABLE NESTING OF LESSER REDPOLL IN 

 MONMOUTHSHIRE. 



On July 19th, 1916, I noticed a pair of Lesser Redpolls 

 {Carduelis Unaria cabaret) repeatedly alighting on a tree 

 growing in some public gardens at Newport, Monmouthshire. 

 I observed the birds about the same spot on several subsequent 

 occasions, and their actions left, little doubt in my mind that 

 they were carrying food to young probably still in the nest. 

 This, however, I could not see from the ground beneath 

 the tree, which I was unable to climb. Howard Bentham 



LESSER REDPOLL BREEDING IN HERTFORDSHI RE. 



Two nests of the Lesser Redpoll {Carduelis I. cabaret) were 

 foimd this year in the same garden at Letchworth, one in 

 Jime in a hawthorn hedge, and the other in Avxgust in a 

 Dorothy Perkins rose. The nests and birds were both seen 

 by me and the young flew in each case. This is, I believe, 

 the first authentic record for north Hertfordshire. 



W. P. Westell. 



[In the Victoria History of Hertfordshire, Mr. Grossman 

 states (I., p. 202) that the Lesser Redpoll's nest has been foimd 

 at Newsells Park (Barkway), which is in the north of the 

 county. — Eds.] 



CROSSBILLS IN CO. ANTRIM. 

 On July 27th, 1916, I watched some Crossbills {Loxia cur- 

 virostra) on a Scotch fir near Fernhill, Belfast. During their 

 short stay they seemed to haunt the same trees most of the 

 time, and when they left for good went in a north-easterly 

 direction. Although I saw three different flocks they all 

 appeared to come from the same place and to go away in the 

 same direction, and even to alight on the same trees although 

 there are plenty of firs here. They did not leave for anj^ 

 lack of food as there were many trees that they had not 

 touched. J. Cunningham. 



TITS IN NESTING-BOXES ATTACKED BY WEASEL 

 AND EVICTED BY WRYNECKS. 



On July 3rd, 1916, I found a weasel in a nesting-box con- 

 taining a Great Tit's nest with young. I killed the weasel 



