128 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



any suggestion that the three forms are different plumage 

 phases of the same species. The three forms do not always 

 appear to be distinguished in the British records, and the 

 wolfii form is very rare apparently. 



A glance at the migration returns of the " British Ornitho- 

 logists Club " shews that these birds (usually the C. suecica 

 species) straggle across to these islands nearly every year on 

 the upward and downward migration. Ed.] 

 Pratincola rubetra (The Whinchat). 



25 April. A male in full plumage at Kingston Hill. 



27 Sept. About 15 seen in Chapman's Pool. 



2 Dec. 1914, W.P.C. saw a male at Poole, and as Dr. Penrose 

 has also seen one at Corfe Castle since this date it would 

 appear that one or more individuals wintered in Dorset. 

 Saxicola oenanthe (The Wheatear). 



On Aug, 22 W.P.C. saw about 30 collected at Swanage, 

 ready to depart. 



On Sept. 27, 20 to 30 seen in Chapman's Pool. 

 Accentor modularis (The Hedgesparrow). 



One was sitting 4 eggs at Canford April 26. 



She hatched on May 2, so I erected my photographic tent 

 and gear ; on May 3rd I commenced work at 2.30 p.m., when 

 the female came to nest and fed young with small insects. 

 At 2.40 she returned again with tiny diptera and hymenoptera, 

 fed young and ate their excreta. 



At 2.55 she returned with green larvae of Oporabia dilutata 

 and Hybernia marginaria. 



At 3.10 she returned with small diptera Culex (?) and 

 settled on the nest and covered young ; after a while as the 

 young did not seem hungry she ate the food she had been 

 holding in her bill. 



At 3.40 she returned with more diptera and remained on 

 nest ; at 4.30 I left. 



The bird got the larvaB from an oak near at hand, and the 

 flies off the grass along a path near. 



On May the 9th the nest was empty, but we could not decide 

 whether it was the work of a hawk or of a stoat. (W.P.C.) 



