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Leicestershire. — One seen " last week " (G. Ellis. Field, 

 31.L1914, p. 245). 



Shropshire. — One seen at Shrewsbury on February 9th 

 (H. E. Forrest). 



Monmouthshire. — One was shot near Magor on January 

 19th (R. C. Banks). 



Norfolk. — ^IVI. J. H. Gurney writes as follows: "The 

 number registered up to date, including some in Lothing- 

 land, which geographically goes with Norfolk, is about 

 sixty-eight. This total may be compared with the return 

 of seventy in 1903 {Zoologist, 1904, p. 214), forty in 1893, 

 and one-hundred and fifty in 1866. The migration of 1913-14 

 has certainly been smaller than that of 1866-67, and that 

 again Avas smaller than the visitation of 1849-50, at all 

 events in the eastern counties. 



" During the present winter the first intimation of their 

 presence was received by Mr. Arthur Patterson on Novem- 

 ber 15th, 1913. There were few to be heard of at first, 

 but it is evident that smaU bands kept on arriving, and 

 gradually working their way inland ; and there being more 

 •observers than formerly, they were quickly noticed, but 

 in most cases not shot at. This is just what happened in 

 1866, when the first was noticed on November 17th, but 

 they were more persecuted then. On January 28th Mr. 

 B. B. Riviere and I, having been informed that there was 

 a flock in a street (Havelock Road) on the outskirts of 

 Norwich, went in search, and soon found four of them 

 feeding upon the red haws of a large Avhitethorn, one of 

 the very few thorn trees still retaining any berries. The 

 haws were dexterously puUed off one by one and swallowed 

 M-hole, except what were dropped. Indeed, their habits 

 were very wasteful, for although one Waxwing might gulp 

 down three or four runnmg, the next would drop twice that- 

 number on the ground, so that the heavy crop upon the 

 tree diminished with needless rapidity. After a ie^v minutes 

 had been devoted to a meal these Waxwings seemed 

 satiated and flew across the street to a large tree opposite 

 where they remained for a time quiescent, unconcernedly 

 preening themselves, and we noticed that they never depressed 

 their crests. They soon grew hungry again, which perhaps 

 accounted for their tameness, albeit voracity is characteristic 

 of the WaxA\-ing, as A^as remarked by Willughby in the 

 seventeenth century. They were also thirst}^, for we saw 

 two of them go to an adjacent house-to]3 and drink out 

 • of the gutter. I lieard them utter no sound, and liave 



