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soon as I moved off. The note of the other birds differed 

 from that of the common Willow-Wren. When looking 

 through a tray of skins of Phylloscopi some weeks later, 

 I at once picked out Ph. t. eversmanni, the Northern 

 Willow- Wren, as the birds I had seen on May 17th. — 

 E. L. Turner." 



My autumn visit extended from September 6th to 13th. 

 I have never stayed at Dungeness itself at quite that 

 time before, and this fact may possibly account for the 

 unusually interesting birds observed, but the first bird 

 of interest seen was presumably only a straggler. 



On the afternoon of the 9th, I came upon a Cream- 

 coloured Courser {Cursorius gallicus) about a mile 

 from the point on the shingle. Its rich colour made it 

 fairly conspicuous against the comparatively dull shingle. 

 Its actions reminded me most nearly of Golden Plover, of 

 Avhich, as it happens, there were three on another part of 

 the shingle ; but as I had seen these ariive from the north- 

 east it is certain that the Courser did not come with them. 

 As I approached the Courser it ran more or less away 

 from me, occasionally stopping for an instant to pick 

 something off the ground ; I was within about twenty 

 yards of it when it flew. The contrast of the black Aving- 

 feathers with the rich ])uff of the upper -parts gave the 

 bird a most striking appearance as it flew. It did not 

 go far, and I continued to A\'atch it for a long time. It 

 w'as an adult bird. Next morning it had gone. 



On the 12th I found an unusually large number of 

 Phylloscopi and other A\'arblers in a clump of willow- 

 bushes. Altogether there must have been eight or ten 

 birds, but they refused to show themselves well. The 

 majority were Willow-Wrens {Ph. trochilus) but I several 

 times saw one bird whose actions, size and shape seemed 

 to denote a HyjJolais, and at length I satisfied myself 

 that it Mas an Icterine Warbler {H. icterina). I was 

 puzzled to hear, from time to time, a peculiar note, 

 certainly not the normal Icterine note, but in the end I 

 came to the conclusion that this was uttered by one of the 



