86 tflRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



Notes have been received from : 



(F.L.B.) The Reverend F. L. Blathwayt, Melbury 



Osmond, Dorchester. 

 (E.H.C.) E. Barker Curtis, Aysgarth, Parkstone Road, 



Poole. 

 (W.P.C.) W. Parkinson Curtis, Drake North, Sandringham 



Road, Parkstone. 



(D.D.) Dr. Dru Drury, Corfe Castle, Wareham. 



(J.M.J.F.) The Reverend Canon J. M. J. Fletcher, The 



Vicarage, Wimborne Minster. 

 (F.H.H.) F. H. Haines, Winfrith. 

 (A.B.H.) The Reverend A. Bertram Button, of Loders 



Vicarage, near Bridport. 

 (F.G.P.) Dr. F. G. Penrose, Hawkley, West Cliff Road, 



Bournemouth. 

 (N.M.R.) Nelson M. Richardson, Monte Video, near 



Wey mouth. 

 (J.R.) The Reverend J. Ridley, Pulham Rectory, 



Dorchester. 

 (E.E.W.) Miss Ellen E. Woodhouse, Chilmore, Ansty, 



Dorset. 



Dr. Dru Drury is a new observer, chiefly a lepidopterist. 

 Mr. Rodd has unfortunately lost his completed 1917 

 Schedule; thus breaking a thirty-five years* record. 



NOTES ON BIRDS. 



THE YELLOW ORIOLE (Oridlus orioltis). A yellow and 

 black bird was seen at Loders, near Bridport, in May, 1917, 

 wliich, from the description of those who saw it, I believe 

 to have been a Golden Oriole A picture of the bird was 

 shown to each of those who reported its occurrence, and they 



