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and a Curlew-Sandpiper {Erolia ferriujinca) is recorded for 

 Sept. 7th (p. 115). 



Birds in Norfolk in 1914. — Mr. J. H. Gurnev's ornitho- 

 logical report for Norfolk for 1914 {Zool, 1915, pp. 121-146) 

 is, as usual, well and carefully put together, but this year is 

 somewhat lacking in items of great interest. We have, 

 liowever, a short account of the nesting of the Cormorants, 

 which has already been treated at length by Miss E. L. 

 Turner in these pages. The following are worthy of note : 

 A Spoonbill [PJatalea I. lencorodia) appeared at Breydon 

 on April 7th and between that date and August 4th twelve 

 ill all were seen there, while one was seen on Kelling beach 

 on August 17th ; a Roseate Tern {Sterna dougalli) was seen 

 at Wells on June 6th and one at Blakeney later in the month : 

 a Bluethroat {Luscinia svecica) was caught at Yarmouth in a 

 fruit -net on June 12th (the Bluethroat is seldom observed 

 in summer) ; a Little Bustard {Otis tetrax) was shot at Barton 

 Bendish on October 1st, and a Stone-Curlew {Burhinus ce. 

 oedicneTnus) is reported in December. 



Jays ix co. Cor^v. — The Rev. W. M. Abbott writes to the 

 Irish Naturalist (1915, p. 107), that a "small colony" of 

 six or eight Jays, presumably G. g. hihernicus, has settled 

 during the last few years in the woods of Conv^amore, 

 Ballyhooly. 



Dartford Warbler in Staffordshire. — In his yearly 

 report on the Zoology of Staffordshire, Mr. J. R. B. Masefield 

 states {Trans. N. Staffs. Field Clvb, 1914-15, p. 151) that 

 an example of Sylvia n. dartfordiensis was seen at close 

 quarters by the Rev. J. 0. Coussmaker, on March 22nd, 

 1915, near Rugeley. It is interesting to note that the 

 Dartford W^arbler was reported from the same place about 

 1870. Sed Zoologist, 1903, p. 423. 



Tengmalm's Owl in Scotland. — Mr. H. Coates records 

 {Scot. Nat., 1915, p. 116) that a specimen of Mgolius f . fimereus 

 obtained at Craighall, near Blairgowrie (Perthshire) in 

 February, 1915, has been presented to the Perth Museum. 

 On page 143 of the same journal Mr. H. W. Robinson notes 

 that Mr. T. Ground, of Birmingham, has a specimen of this 

 owl which was picked up dead on Scalloway (Shetland) on 

 March 14th, 1897. There are only five previous occurrences 

 of Tengmalm's Owl in Scotland. 



King-Eider in Orkney. — Mr. H. W. Robinson records 

 {Scot. Nat., 1915, p. 143) that a female Somateria spectahilis 



