302 BIIITISII HIHDS. [vol. ix. 



GREEN SANDi^IPERS IN CO. TIPPERARY. 



The folloA\ang occurrences of the Greeu Sandpiper (Trinxja 

 ochropus) around Fethard, . Tipperary, have come mider my 

 ])crsonal observation : One on September 21st. 1904. and 

 another later in the same year ; one on December lOth, 1 !:)()() : 

 one on April 11th, 1908; one on August 29th, 1909; one in 

 August, 1911, and one on August 11th, 1914. ('. J. Carroll. 



QUAILS IN COS. TIPPERARY AND WATER FOPvL). 



The Quail {Coturnix c. coturnix) has become so rare in 

 IreUxnd, that the following recoi'ds are of interest. 



In the spring of 1905 seveial arrived near Ardlinane. south 

 Tipperary. A })rood of young flushed in the beginning of 

 July could only fly some yards. A few birds had been 

 noticed there during many seasons, but once they did not 

 come for five or six years, and since 1905 none have been 

 seen or heard. 



On May 8th, 1913, a Quail rose at my feet as I was 

 walking through a grass field within a stone's throw of the 

 coast near the eastern end of co. \Vaterford. 



C. J. Carroll. 



Extensions of the Known Range of the Scottish 

 Crested Titmouse. — Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant has recently 

 recorded {antea, p. 182) the occurrence of Parus cristalus 

 moticus in October, 1915, in east Ross-shire. The ])resence 

 of the bird in a firwood in Nairnshire between Loch Loy 

 and the old bar of Findhorn, where it seemed to be breeding 

 in Mav, 1915, has also recentlv been recorded (Scot. Nat. 

 1915, p. 285) by Mr. G. G. Blackwood. As the range of the 

 bird so far as known hitherto is so extremely restricted, any 

 record proving an extension, however slight, is of course 

 of great interest, more especially when evidence of breeding 

 is adduced. 



The publication of these records has induced Mi. W. Bcny 

 to publish [Scot. Nut. 1916, ]). 08) his observations on the 

 subject. Mr. Berry explains that he has kept silent because 

 he wished to see the species established in the localities in 

 which he found it. Mi'. Berry's object was most laudable, 

 but we see no reason why it should not have been achieved 

 in the same way, as we should hope it has been now by the 

 omission of exact localities. We welcome Mr. Berry's records 

 as they are of considerable scientific ini]H>rtance, in that they 

 add to our knowledge of a bird wliicli has as restricted a 

 range as any local l']uroj)ean foruL 



