340 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Little Auk {Mergulus alle). — I saw one on the Gore Sands 

 in the autumn of 1909. 



Slavonian Grebe {Podicipes miritus). — An immature male 

 was shot off Burnham on February 2nd, 1912. 



F. H. L. Whish. 



RECOVERY OF MARKED BIRDS. 



Corrections. 



Robins (p. 312). No. F589, was marked and recovered on the 

 dates recorded by Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, at Cheadle, 

 Staffordshire, not by Mr, Leigh at Hampton-in-Arden. 

 No. D325 was marked by Captain Seppings on Januarv 

 29th, 1912, not June 29th, 1911. 



No. C405 was recovered on December 8th, not November 

 8th, 1911. 



Reed -Warblers in Ireland. — During a stay at the Tuskar 

 Rock off the coast of AVexford in September and October, 

 1911, Professor C. J. Patten obtained two specimens of 

 Acrocephalus streperus out of a party of five on September 

 19th {Irish Nat., 1912, p. 50). Professor Patten announces 

 these as the first occurrences of the species in Ireland, but 

 in the next issue of the same journal (p. 84) he writes that 

 a previous record by Mr. Barrington had escaped him, but 

 he makes a further mistake in stating that this record had 

 not been referred to in British Birds, whereas it was 

 mentioned on p. 408 of Vol. II. Professor Patten also 

 obtained a young Wagtail, which he thinks is a 

 specimen of Motacilla flava, on September 12th, 1911, and 

 a Skylark which he considers to be Alauda arvensis 

 cantarella, on October 5th, 1911, but he promises a further 

 report on the identification of these two birds. It would 

 seem more likely that the Skylark is an example of ^. a. cinerea, 

 the eastern form, which has been taken at Fair Isle (February 

 24th, 1906), than the very similar south European form 

 A. a. cantarella. — H.F.W. 



Swallow in Cornwall in February. — A solitary Swallow 

 (Hirundo rustica) was observed at Falmouth from February 

 29th onwards (N. Greaves, Field, 23.III.1912, p. 596). This 

 bird may have wintered somewhere in the neighbourhood. 



Mealy Redpolls in Lanark. — A small flock of Linota 

 linaria was seen at Stepps on January 7th, 1912 (J. Paterson, 

 Glasgow Nat., 1912, p. 63). 



