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shading to a dirty-white on the lower-breast ; belly dirty- 

 white, distinctly suffused with pale yellow, axillaries 

 also showing this distinct yellow tinge ; bill black on upper 

 mandible, bluish-horn on lower mandible ; legs and feet lead- 

 grey ; irides hazel. T. A. Coward. 



PIED FLYCATCHER IN ANGLESEY. 



Up to the time when the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales 

 was published, there was no record of the Pied Flycatcher 

 in Anglesey. Mr. F. H. Mills informs me that one day in 

 the early summer of 1910 he saw a male of this species 

 {Muscicapa atricapilla) in Cadnant Wood, close to Menai 

 Bridge, and watched it for a considerable time. As the bird 

 is common in the wooded parts of Carnarvonshire across the 

 Straits, it is not surprising that one should occur in the belt 

 of woodland along the opposite shore, which is practically 

 the only suitable tract of country in Anglesey. Nevertheless, 

 an actual record is interesting and valuable. H. E. Forrest. 



MIGRATION OF SLENDER-BILLED NUTCRACKERS. 



On the Continent. 



The following notes are extracted from an article by Ritter 

 von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen in Urania (No. 49, pp. 866-9), 

 kindly sent to me by the author. 



The first appearance of Nutcrackers is recorded from the 

 Russian Baltic Provinces and Kurland. Here they appeared 

 towards the end of July, became very numerous towards 

 mid-August, but had diminished in numbers at the beginning 

 of September. 



A flight of thirty to forty was observed in west Prussia 

 towards the end of July, which appears to have dispersed 

 westward in August and September. It is remarkable that 

 no occurrence was reported from east Prussia till the end of 

 August. From Pomerania and Mecklenburg the first records 

 date from the beginning of the second half of September, 

 and about the same period for Prussian Silesia and Hanover 

 (E. Friesland). By the end of the month they had reached 

 Mark Brandenburg, and about the beginning of October were 

 reported from Bavaria, Elsass, and Westphalia. 



In Austro-Hungary the first records date from the last 

 ten days of September, when they appeared in Bohemia ; in 

 numbers in Lower and Upper Austria, and singly in Croatia 

 and Dalmatia ; while at the beginning of October they were 

 recorded from south Styria. F. C. R. Jourdain. 



