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(February 5th) ; four were shot m the Ashford district 

 about January 10th, and one about the same date at Sutton 

 Valence (Rev. J. R. Hale). Seven seen between January 

 11th and 20th at Dover (G. Mannering). Female shot, 

 Smarden, January 2nd (R. Cheesman). Female shot, 

 Westerham, January 29th ; two females shot Newenden, 

 January 30th (N.F.T.). Male shot, Cranbrook, January 30th 

 (R. Cheesman). 



Sussex. — Male shot, St. Leonards-on-Sea, February 7th 

 (N.F.T.). 



Stjurey. — One at Roehampton on Januarv 25th, feeding 

 on holly-berries {Field, 14.11.1914, p. 355). 



Ireland. 



Londonderry. — One was shot at Aghadowey on January 

 1st (W. C. Wright). 



Tyrone. — One M-as shot at Stuart Hall on December 25th, 

 this being the first record for the countv (N. H. Foster, 

 Irish Nat, 1914, p. 51). 



Down. — One was shot at Ardglass on Januarv 27th (W. C. 

 Wright). 



Fer:\ianagh. — " On January- 10th I received a Waxwing 

 shot on west shore of Lough Erne, co. Fermanagh ; it was 

 probably killed about Januar}- 6th " (R. M. Barrington). 



Abroad. 



In the Bevue Franc aise d'OrnithoIogie (No. 58, pp. 241-43) 

 Waxwings are recorded from the followmg departments : 

 Pas-de-Calais, Calvados, Seine-et-Oise, Loiret, Cote-d'Or, 

 Haute-Saone, Jura ; also in Savoie, Switzerland, and 

 Provence. Most seem to have occurred at the end of Decem- 

 ber, but tliey api)eared in Switzerland at the end of Novem- 

 ber. Le Gerfaut (Jan. 1914, p. 16) gives eight occurrences 

 from the Ardennes and three at Auvelais, November lltli 

 being the earliest date. Prof. Mathey-Dupraz of Colombier, 

 S\^ itzerland, records in tlie Ornithologische Beobachter, XL, 

 p. 91, a flock of seven on December 12th, and further pas- 

 sages of migratory flocks on December 23rd and at the end 

 of tlie month. 



SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF IX KENT. 



On November 28th, 1913, near Tunbridge Wells, I saw 

 a bird which I suspected was a Siberian Chiifchaff {Phyllo- 

 scopus collyhita tristis). Fortunately the bird remained 

 in the same place until December 17th, and as it was 



