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the secondaries quite distinctly, but they were not so markedly 

 distinct as to make me imagine that the bird might be a 

 Northern Willow-Tit. When it spread its tail as it was 

 balancing on a slender twig of a birch, I could see the rounded 

 shape. I recorded the species for Lancashire from a bird 

 in the Warrington Museum, but this is the first Willow-Tit 

 I have seen or heard of in Cheshire. There was a second 

 Tit with it, but I did not see it clearly enough to be sure about 

 its identity ; I believe that it was another Willow-Tit. 



A pair of Marsh -Tits are nesting in the same wood, and I 

 have for some time been carefully observing every Marsh-Tit 

 in this wood and in the neighbourhood, in the hope of identi- 

 fying a Willow-Tit. I feel confident in asserting that the 

 Marsh-Tit is by far the commoner bird of the two in Cheshire. 



T. A. Coward. 

 The Willow-Tit {Parus atricapillus kleinschmidti) not having 

 yet been recorded from Warwickshire, it is interesting to note 

 that Mr. H. F. Witherby has pronounced two skins, which 

 he has kindly examined for me, to be of this species ; both 

 are Warwickshire specimens, being respectively an adult 

 female, Earlswood, December, 1893, and an adult male, 

 Kenilworth, December 25th, 1911. They belonged to Mr. 

 T. Ground, who has very kindly given me the 1911 specimen, 

 while the other remains in his collection. 



A. Geoffrey Leigh. 

 On April 18th, 1912, in Boggart Hole Clough, one of the 

 Manchester Public Parks, I saw two birds which I concluded 

 were Willow-Tits [Parus atricapillus kleinschmidti). I watched 

 them for some time at a distance of a few feet, feeding on the 

 ground, and on a willow tree, and noticed that the crown of 

 the head was unmistakably brovv'n-black, quite different 

 from the glossy black of the Marsh-Tit, being dull in appearance 

 and giving the impression of being far less clear-cut along 

 the edges of the crown than in a Marsh-Tit. The tail seemed 

 to be rounded, and the light edges to the secondaries made 

 a noticeable light buff or yellowish mark on the wings, when 

 seen at close quarters. One bird seemed to have rather more 

 brown in the crown than the other. They continually uttered 

 a high thin note. In general appearance they looked alto- 

 gether duller than Marsh-Tits. A. W. Boyd. 



THE GREEN WOODPECKER'S METHOD OF 

 EXTRACTING LARV^ FROM WILLOWS. 



The occupation of a basket-maker in north Norfolk has made 

 it necessary to acquaint myself with the production and 

 cutting of osiers in all their stages. The pursuit of this work 



