OTES 



FIRECREST IN BEDFORDSHIRE. 

 When watching for birds on April 1st, 1916, from an 

 observation hut which I have had built for that purpose at 

 Woburn, my attention was attracted by a bird with a very 

 white eyestripe in a bush some twenty yards away. I had 

 only a momentary glimpse and was much puzzled to know 

 what it could be at this time of year. I did not see it again 

 for an hour, when it reappeared within two and a half yards 

 of my window and I identified it at once as a Firecrest 

 {Regulus ignicapiUus). The orange crest was raised as if 

 displaying to a female on 'the same bush, about a foot below 

 him, but unless she is very much more like the Goldcrest than 

 he is, she did not belong to the same species. 



There can be no question of confusing this bird with the 

 Goldcrest, once one has seen the conspicuously broad eye- 

 stripe, but the black lines above and below the white were 

 also noticed. The bird seemed slightly larger than the 

 Goldcrest, of which there were manj^ about, but this may 

 have been because he was ruffling up his feathers for the 

 benefit of the little lady below him. M. Bedford. 



CHIFFCHAFFS IN IRELAND IN FEBRUARY. 

 A CHiFFCHAFF {Phylloscopus collyhita) was reported to me by 

 Mrs. Hoffe, who heard it at Arklow (Wicklow) on February 

 12th, 1916, and by Miss Macartney-Filgate, who heard it at 

 Lowtherstone, Balbriggan (Dublin) on February 15th and 

 16th. Both are competent observers. Charles W. Ben .son. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD IN HERTFORDSHIRE. 



An adult female Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo I. lagopus) 

 was shot by a farmer near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, on March 

 3rd, 1916. It was sent to me in the flesh and will shortly be 

 added to the bird collection in the Letchworth Museum. 



W. Percival Westell. 



WHITE-TAILED EAGLE AND ROUGH-LEGGED 

 BUZZARDS IN LINCOLNSHIRE. 



An immature example of the White-tailed Eagle {Haliaetus 

 alhicilla) was trapped on February 9th, 1916, by a keeper on 

 Manton Warren, not far from the Scawby gull-ponds. The 

 bird had been seen in the neighbourhood for a few days 

 previously. 



