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by the bursting of the river bank. The Cormorants took 

 possession of an old Heron's nest on a low spruce tree. My 

 son found the nest at the beginning of September and there 

 were four young ones nearly fit to fly. He had seen five 

 Cormorants flying about some time previously, which looks 

 as if the p.esent inhabitants of the nest were a second brood. 

 After being flooded for months about half the covert was 

 blown down by a gale in June, so it is almost impossible to get 

 through it. H. M. Upchek, 



EARLY MOVEMENTS OF WADERS ON THE 

 LANCASHIRE COAST. 



With reference to the note on this subject {antea, p. 96), 

 I might say that I have often seen Knots on this coast on 

 August 1st and 2nd and also shot them, the flocks sometimes 

 being large ones. Most of them were in immature plumage, 

 but the few adults have all been in full winter plumage, with 

 no trace of the full red summer plumage as stated by your 

 correspondent to be still complete in the case of those seen 

 by him. H. W. Robinson. 



QUAIL IN BERKSHIRE. 



As the Quail {Coturnix c. coturnix) has become rare of late 

 years in Berkshire, it may be worth recording that on the 

 evening of July 3rd, 1916, I heard the unmistak cable note 

 of this species at brief intervals for over half an hour in the 

 cornfields near my house at Appleton. It was calling again 

 the following evening, and for several days subsequently, 

 but then ceased. F. C. R. Jourdain. 



Birds in Norfolk in 1915. — In Mr. J. H. Gumey's usual 

 annual report on ornithological events in Norfolk for 1915 

 (ZooL, pp. 201-9 and 260-6) we note the following: — A 

 Ferruginous Duck (Nyroca nyroca) was seen on one of the 

 protected broads from April 12th to the end of the month, 

 while two were seen at the same place on July 14th ; a Little 

 Owl (Athene n. noctua) is noted as breeding at Great Melton ; 

 a Ruddy Sheld-Duck [Casarca ferruginea) was shot near 

 Yarmouth on November 8th, and another on the 16th; a 

 Dipper " not showing any tinge of chestnut " was shown to 

 Mr. Guniey by Mr. Saunders, the taxidermist, who had received 

 it from Potter-Heigham on November 10th — this was almost 

 certainly an example of Cinclus c. cinclus ; a Garganey (Anas 

 querquedula) shot at Martham on December 9th is an inter- 

 esting winter occurrence. 



