VOL. XIII.] NOTES. 27" 



GREY WAGTAIL NESTING IN WARWICKSHIRE. 



As the late A. G. Leigh gives {antea, Vol. XII., p. 231) few 

 records of the nesting of the Grey Wagtail {Motacilla c. cinerea) 

 in Warwickshire, it is worth recording that I found a nest 

 of this species containing two young at Leamington Spa on 

 May 5th, 1918. R. H. Baillie. 



PIED FLYCATCHER IN SOUTH WALES. 



On April i6th, 1919, while fishing on the Usk just below 

 Brecon, I saw a cock Pied Flycatcher {Muscicapa hypoleuca) 

 in very fine plumage flying about and feeding by some willows 

 on the bank of the river. This bird, is I think, rather rare in 

 South Wales, so it may be worth recording. 



H. J. Vaughan. 



UNUSUAL SITE FOR CHIFFCHAFF'S NEST. 



On June 8th, 1918, in east Anglesey, I saw a nest of the- 

 Chiffchaff {Phylloscopus c. collyhita) built in a small gorse 

 bush growing out of rock on a bank bordering a lane. As 

 this was the only bit of gorse in the immediate neighbourhood 

 of the nest, it seems strange that such a site should be selected 

 when more suitable cover was available on all sides. The 

 nest was much exposed to the weather and passers-by and 

 contained half-fledged young, but they were killed by cold 

 and wet weather shortly afterwards. S. G. Cummings, 



BREEDING HABITS OF THE NIGHTJAR. 



For four consecutive years, 1915-18, I found a pair of Night- 

 jars {Caprimulgus e. eiiropcBUs) breeding on the extensive 

 sand-dunes on the Carnarvon Bay coast, at precisely the 

 same spot, during the first week in August. When first 

 discovered in each successive year, the young were the same 

 age (about a week old), and on subsequent occasions when I 

 inspected them the female parent bird was brooding on or 

 close to the young even when well fledged. The late date 

 suggests a second brood, and the fact of the young birds 

 being found in the same place yearly, and at the same date, 

 infer that they were the product of the same pair — or possibly 

 their descendants — returning annually to this breeding 

 ground. This local attachment to a breeding site on the 

 part of the Nightjar is well known, but it is the more remark- 

 able on a long stretch of sand-dunes where there is a great 

 similarity of ground. Unless the exact spot be marked, it 

 is no easy matter to find the young again on revisiting the 



