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UNUSUAL nesting-sitp:8 of pied wagtail. 



Referring to the notes on this subject {antea, pp. 185 and 

 225), perhaps Mr. Jourdain may like to add the following to 

 his hst :— 



In 1905 I knew a nest in a goods-shed at Llannwchllyn 

 llailway Station, in Merionethshire, in which a Robin and a 

 Pied Wagtail each laid an egg every morning initil it was taken 

 by some schoolboys with I think (speaking from memory), 

 ten eggs, equally divided between each species. The nest 

 was founded upon an old Swallow's, on the top of a rafter, and 

 luid evidently been built by the Wagtail. I remember at 

 least one other case of a Pied Wagtail building in an okl 

 Swallow's nest (in Northumberland). Just north of the 

 Tweed, in Berwickshire, I have seen this Wagtail occupying 

 a Thrush's nest on the face of an old wall, but that I should 

 not regard as a ver}^ unusual circumstance. Nor is it very 

 rare to find it nesting upon the ground either under shelter of 

 a })ush or at the foot of a wall, at least not with us in the north. 



George Bolam. 



On May 16th, 1915, I found a Pied Wagtail nesting in the 

 remains of an old Dipper's nest at Birtles, Cheshire. The 

 Dipper's nest was situated on a ledge over a culvert flowing 

 into a small stream. The Wagtail's nest contained eggs and 

 young. E. W. Hendy. 



TWO WHITE AND ONE NORMAL HEDGE-SPARROWS 

 IN SAME BROOD. 



I HAVE just skinned (January 13th) a Hedge-Sparrow which 

 is practically an albino, except that the eyes were normal in 

 colour ; legs and bill pale pinkish. It was taken from a nest 

 near Newcastle-on-Tyne in the summer and had lived in con- 

 finement since. The brood consisted of three birds, one of 

 wliich was in the ordinary plumage, the other two being white. 



George Bolam. 



LATE NESTING OF SWALLOW IN CHESHIRE. 



With reference to Mr. Dewhurst's note on this subject 

 [antea, p. 137), on September 5th; 1915, I ringed four 

 young Swallows in a nest near Shuttlings Low on the east 

 Cheshire hills. On Sej)tember 10th of the same year, a friend 

 ringed four nestlings of the same species with ray rings at 

 Peover, Cheshire. E. W. Hendy. 



