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nested there in various other years since then, e.g., 1904, 1905, 

 &c., whilst in 1905 a pair, which I had the pleasure of seeing, 

 frequented the stream at Binnegar Farm, which is close to 

 Trigon, and doubtless nested there. (E. R. B.) 



SONG THRUSH (Turdus musicus, L.). Nest with three eggs at 

 Keysworth on Jan. 22. (S. E. V. F.) 



DARTFORD WARBLER *. Mehzophilus undatus, Bodd. Seen 

 near Wareham on Jan. 9. (S. E. V. F.) 



ICTERINE WARBLER (Sylvia icterina, Vieillot). ERRONEOUSLY 

 RECORDED FROM DORSET. In the " new edition," published in 

 1901, of his Handbook of British Birds, Mr. J. E. Harting makes 

 the following entry in his notice of the Icterine Warbler : " One, 

 Lyme Regis, Dorset, May, 1897 : Mathew, Zool., 1897, p. 332." 

 But although the note in the Zoologist (loc. cit.} is headed 

 " Icterine Warbler at Lyme Regis," and Lyme Regis is certainly 

 situated in the county of Dorset, the writer of the note in 

 question, the Rev. Murray A. Mathew, clearly states, in the 

 course of it, that the Icterine Warblers, heard several times by 

 himself and his wife, near Lyme Regis, during May, 1897, were 

 singing well within the confines of Devon, to which county, and 

 not to Dorset, the record must consequently be accredited. 

 (E. R. B.) 



GOLD-CREST (Regulus cristatus, Koch). Numerous at Pulham, 

 on Jan. 1 1 and after. (J. R.) 



FIRE-CREST (Regulus ignicapillus, C. L. Brehm). NEAR 

 CHARMOUTH. In "The Zoologist" for April, 1906, p. 149, 

 Miss Gulielma Lister, F.L.S., placed on record the fact that on 

 March 28th, 1906, she and her companions watched through 

 telescopes for some 20 minutes, at a distance of only ten yards, a 

 Fire-crest (Regulus igni'capillus\ which was flitting about a hedge 

 near Charmouth. Miss Lister, who has become familiar with 

 this species in Germany, particularly noticed the characteristics 



[ (G. P.) writes Mar. 30, 1907, " I saw a pair on the Sandbanks (Poole Har- 

 bour) on the 28 and 29 inst. They probably mean to nest there." This note 

 properly belongs to the 1907 Report.] 



