VOL. X.] NOTES. 167 



SAVI'S WARBLER IN SUS8EX. 



A MALE Savi's Warbler {Locustella I. luscinioides) was shot at 

 the old brickfield in West St. Leonards, on May 30th, 1916. 

 It was examined in the flesh by Mr Ruskin Butterfield and 

 also by Mr. H. W\ Ford-Lindsay. Except for those which 

 occurred in Fair Isle in May, 1908, this seems to be the only 

 authentic occurrence of the bird in the British Isles since 

 about 1856. J. B. Nichols. 



LATE NESTING OF SWALLOW IN CARNARVONSHIRE. 



With reference to Mr. Dewhurst's note on the late nesting 

 of the Swallow {antea, p. 137) and the editorial note thereon, 

 it is probable that jDarticular pairs breed habitually later 

 than others. This 3'ear (1916) I found a brood of four fledged 

 young in the nest on September 7th, and last year there were 

 young in the same nest a few days earlier, no doubt by the 

 same pair. This nest was of the entirely unsupported type, 

 being attached to the sawn — and so comparatively smooth — 

 side of a floor joist in the middle of a Ioav unceiled room in an 

 isolated barn on Morfa Dinlle. C^arnarvon. A quantity of 

 long dried grass was worked in with the mud and hanging 

 so as almost to conceal the nest, a marvel of strength and 

 constructional skill. It would appear that those Swallows 

 that build in this mamier do not make use of the more normal 

 sites, for in this same building there were many such, and 

 apparently much more suitable and safer than that selected. 



S. G. ClJMMINGS. 



SAND-MARTINS NESTING IN DRAIN-PIPES. 



At the beginning of June, 1916, Miss Enid Tm-ner pointed 

 out to me a drain-pipe projecting out of a wall over the river 

 at Cambridge whence she had seen a Sand-Martin {Riparia 

 r. riparia) fly out. Later on in July I discovered a small 

 colony nesting in the drain-pipes in the wall overhanging the 

 Cam close to Clare Bridge. The young were nearly fledged 

 and the old birds could be seen feeding them at the mouths of 

 the pipes. There were either three or four pairs of birds 

 which were thus making use of a nesting site which I think 

 is unusual in the Sand-Martin. Maud D. Haviland. 



[Though the fact has not perhaps been recorded, it is within 

 the knowledge of one of us that Sand-Martms were nesting 

 in the pipes mentioned by Miss Haviland between 1893 and 

 1897, and probably in previous and subsequent years. The 

 site is very unusual, but it may be pointed out that drainage 



