228 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vii. 



SISKINS IN ANGLESEY. 



The Siskin {Carduelis spinus) has rarely been noticed in 

 Anglesey. On the morning of October 9th, 1913, some 

 thirty birds were feeding on seeding knapweed on a bank 

 at the edge of Holyhead harbour. They rose in a twittering 

 crowd on being disturbed, but after a short flight returned 

 to the bank again. Their occurrence in this bare and tree- 

 less district, so uncongenial to the Siskin's usual habits, 

 suggested that the birds were newly-arrived migrants. It 

 seemed likely, too, that other species had made an oversea 

 passage during the night, for there Avere many Goldcrests 

 in tlie gorse bushes at the harbour's edge and several 

 Brambhngs, associated Avith Chaffinches, in the woods at 

 Penrhos, three miles away. Chas. Oldham. 



MEALY REDPOLL IN LEICESTERSHIRE. 

 In Mr. Montagu Browne's Vertebrate Fau7ia of Leicestershire 

 there is no mention of the Mealy Redpoll {Carduelis I. 

 linaria) as occurring in the county. Though, no doubt, 

 an uncommon Avinter-visitor, I feel sure it must occur 

 occasionally among the migrant flocks of Lesser Redpolls 

 Avhich regularly visit us, and as a confirmation of this I 

 saAV on November 18th, 1913, a pair of these birds caught 

 by a Hinckley bird-catcher on November 9th, on a farm 

 at Shenton, six or seven miles from Burbage, Leicestershire, 

 A\dth some Lesser Redpolls. Stephen H. Pilgrim. 



SHORE-LARK IN BEDFORDSHIRE. 



During the last AA-eek of October, 1913, a mature cock 

 Shore-Lark {Eremophila a. flava) AAas caught on the Dun- 

 stable DoAAiis, in Bedfordshire. The bird AAas trapped AA'ith 

 a number of common Sky-Larks. No others of the species 

 AA-ere observed. When I saAV the bird it AAas doing aacII in 

 a large cage, eating mostly canary-seed. It seemed to be 

 getting tame very quickly. W. Rowan. 



GREY WAGTAIL BREEDING IN HAJMPSHIRE. 



Since the publication of the Birds of Hampshire (in 1905) 

 the Grey Wagtail {Motacilla h. hoarula) has so increased as 

 a breeding species in Hants, that it may noAv be considered 

 a resident pretty generally distributed throughout the 

 county in suitable localities, AAdiereas it aa^s formerly only 

 very local in its distribution. Very fcAv of the mills on the 

 Hampshire streams are Avithout a pair of these birds nesting 

 in their vicinitv. Philip W. Munn. 



