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the song as a single note, repeated in a loud, clear tone some 

 five or six times in succession, and having some resemblance 

 to a common song-note of the Wood- Warbler. This descrip- 

 tion Mr. Brock thinks coincides very nearly with the first 

 of those given by Mr. C. J. Alexander {antea, IV., p. 147) for 

 the Marsh-Tit, and is unlike the song of the Willow-Tit as 

 described by the same writer. On the other hand, Mr. 

 Brock states that the plaintive alarm-note " tzing-tzmg- 

 tzing," which is characteristic, is the most promment of the 

 other notes uttered by the bhd. 



Melodious Warbler and Indian Stonechat on the 

 Isle of May. — ^A female example of Hypolais polygloita is 

 recorded by the Misses E. V. Baxter and L. J. Rintoul to 

 have appeared on the Isle of May on September 27th, 1913 

 {Scot Nat., 1913, p. 273). This is the first record of the 

 occurrence of the species m Scotland. 



On October 10th, 1913, " a most unusual-looking Stone- 

 chat," at first sight looking " more like a small Whinchat 

 than anything else," was noticed and procured by the same 

 observers. The bird has been submitted to Dr. Hartert, 

 who has pronounced it to be an example of Saxicola t. indica, 

 whicli has only once before been recorded from the British 

 Isles — namely, near Cley, Norfolk, on September 2nd, 1904. 



Late stay of House-Martin in Staffordshire. — 

 Mr. F. A. Monckton reports a single House-Martin [Hirundo 

 u. ifrbica) at Stretton Hall, near Stafford, on November 

 23rd, 1913. 



Little Owl breeding in Hampshire. — In the Zoologist 

 (1913, p. 149) Mr. G. B. Corbin mentions that Little Owls 

 {Athene n. noctua) nested in several fresh localities near 

 Ring\\ood in 1912. Mr. P. W. Munn informs us that 

 Mr. Corbin saw j^oung ones taken from a nest near Ring\A'ood 

 in 1911, and that he has been aware of the nesting of the 

 bird on the west side of the Avon for some time. This is 

 a decided westward extension of the bird's known nesting- 

 range. 



Glossy Ibis in Argyllshire and Norfolk. — Mr. C. 

 Kerr Harris records {Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 284) that a specimen 

 of Egaiheus f. falcinellus was killed by a boy on the Island 

 of Lismore, on October 13th, 1913. Mr. B. Dye writes 

 {Zool., 1914. p. 37) that a specimen was shot at Acle, near 

 Yarmouth, en October 28th, 1913. 



Red-necked Phalarope breeding in Tiree. — In the 

 course of a series of papers on " The Birds of the Island of 



