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also three examples in Dorchester Museum, i.e., one adult, 

 Weymouth, Thompson collection and two others apparently 

 of this species from Wareham (one dated 4. 6. 1903). 



7. Continental Coal- Titmouse. Par us ater. 



Three seen at Canford February 23rd, 1913, and one seen 

 at Canford December 21st, 1913, and two, Parkstone, January, 

 1915. D.F.C., Vol. 35, p. 187, arid Vol. 37, p. 150. 



8. British Willow- Titmouse. Par us borealis kleinschmidti. 

 Nesting at Canford, April and May, 1915. D.F.C., Vol. 37, 

 p. 152. Probably bred near Sherborne in 1897. (A. W. 

 Champerno wne ) . 



9. Marsh Warbler. Acrocephalus palustris. 



Nested near Sherborne, 1897, and in South Dorset, 1902, and 

 again 1917. " British Birds," Vol. XI., p. 44. 



10. Northern Willow Warbler. Philoscopus trochilus evers- 

 manni. 



Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis writes that he is convinced he found 

 this Northern form of our Common Willow Wren breeding 

 in Bere Wood. The date appears to have been 1911. The 

 six eggs were hatched and the young got away. This, if 

 correct, is a most unusual occurrence, the breeding haunts of 

 the species being N.E. Europe. 



11. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Coccyzus americanus. 



One picked up dead in a garden near Bridport, Oct. 5, 1895. 

 D.F.C., Vol. 17, p. xli. and 198. " Zoologist," 1895, p. 376. 



12. Blue-tailed Bee-eater. Merops philippinus. 



The example of this species reported as caught at Parkstone, 

 September, 1902 (D.F.C., Vol. 24, p. 181), was subsequently 

 identified as a Black-headed Sibia *(Lioptila capistrata), an 

 Indian species, examples of which were released in Dorset 

 in the summer of 1902. Attention is here drawn to the 

 record in order that the error may not be perpetuated. 



13. Little Owl. Carine noctua. 



Reported by the keepers at Abbotsbury as breeding there 

 about 1902. Since then the species has occurred in various 

 districts in the county, e.g., at Canford, 1912 ; and in the 

 Dorchester and Weymouth districts. This is a fast -spreading 



