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ROOKS BUILDING IN CHIMNEYS. 



My attention was drawn this spring to fifteen Rooks' nests 

 which were built in chimneys at Three Counties Asylum, 

 Arlesey, Bedfordshire. It appears that these birds have 

 been in the habit of doing this for, at least, five years past. 

 There is a rookery and suitable nest trees close by, but these 

 particular birds a]iparently prefer a chimney as a nesting 

 site. The accumulation of twigs and other material became 

 so great this spring that it was impossible to light fires as 

 the chimneys refused to draw. Consequently, the nests 

 were all taken out and the top of the chimneys wired ovei. 

 I secured a nest, with a clutch of five smoky eggs, for the 

 Letchworth Museum as a memento of this interesting event. 



W. Percival Westell. 



CETTI'S WARBLER IN SUSSEX. 



An example of Cetti's Warbler {Cettia c. cctti) was shot at 

 Westfield, Sussex, on June 21st, 1916. The bird, which was 

 examined in the flesh by Mr. T. Parkin of Hastings, proved 

 on dissection to be a male. 



I met with this Warbler in some numbers in the south of 

 France in January 1914, and the bird in question, which was 

 shown to me, closely resembles a specimen which I obtained 

 there. 



Mr. Witherby has since seen and compared the bird 

 obtained at Westfield, and finds that it is of the typical form. 



G. V. Webster. 



BLUETHROAT IN SUSSEX. 



On September 28th, 1916, the wind being from the south-east, 

 I identified an immature Bluethroat {L/iiscinia svecica) on the 

 Eastbourne Crumbles. The bushes here are not very thick, 

 and I was able to see very plainly the light eyestripe of the 

 bird as well as the red of the tail. The Bluethroat seems to 

 be an infrequent visitor to Sussex, and the local taxidermist, 

 IVIr. Bates, has no Sussex record of the bird, nor had his 

 father. E. C. Arnold, 



LATE NESTING OF SWALLOW IN CHESHIRE. 



On September iSth, 1916, I fomid a nest containing four 

 yoimg Swallows [Che.lidon r. nistica). They were only half 



