148 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



(25) Aegithalus caudatus roseus. 

 Titmouse. 



The British Long- Tailed 



Apr. 8 Nest finished. 



Apr. 9 Another nest of the same species also finished, 



Canford. (E.H.C.) 

 May 20 At Berewood. Three birds seen feeding to one 



nest. No mistake, all three seen together, 



sexes not determined. The nest was high up 



in an oak fork. (W.P.C.) 



LANIIDAE. 



(26) Lanius collurio. The Red- Backed Shrike. 

 Arrivals. 



May 20 

 May 21 



Nesting. 

 June 24 



A pair seen at Bere Wood. (W.P.C.) 

 One seen in Canford Bottom (W.P.C.). This 

 bird evidently then had a mate or procured one 

 later, because during the early part of June it 

 was repeatedly seen singly or in company with 

 its mate, though, oddly enough, E.H.C. has not 

 made any notes about it till 24th June. This 

 is the more extraordinary, as we had remarked 

 specifically on the presence of a pair in or about 

 this locality from time to time since the year 

 1891, when the then keeper at Canford Bottom 

 described to me the way he had seen the male 

 strike and kill an adult Anthus pratensis, the 

 Meadow Pipit. 



We determined to find the nest of this pair, and 

 after watching the birds for a long time, ranging 

 over a good-sized area, we decided that they 

 were nesting in a wide hedge. W.P.C. found 

 a nest which E.H.C., from previous experience, 

 pronounced to be Lanius collurio. It was less 



