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CONTINENTAL JAYS IN OXFORDSHIRE 



AND SUSSEX. 

 Up to the present it appears that identified examples of the 

 Continental Jay (Garriihis g. glandarius) have been recorded 

 only from the littoral counties of Kent, Sussex and Norfolk. 

 I am now able to show that the migration of this form extends 

 far into the interior of the country. 



In January 1917 I received in the flesh a male Jay which 

 had been shot on the i6th at Cokethorpe, near Witney, 

 Oxfordshire. I suspected at the time that it belonged to the 

 Continental form, but laid it aside until an opportunity should 

 occur of comparing it with identified examples. This, by the 

 kindness of Dr. N. F. Ticehurst, I have now been able to do, 

 and we are both agreed that the specimen is referable to 

 Garrulus g. glandarius. 



The fact of the immigration of Jays into Oxfordshire in 

 autumn and winter is not new, such an immigration having 

 been noted by Mr. C. Matthew Prior as far back as 1877 

 [Zool., 1878, p. 133). Also, in the course of a correspondence 

 in the Zoologist which followed the paper by the late Mr. John 

 Cordeaux, "On the Migration of the Common Jay" {op. 

 cit., 1883, pp. 1-3), Mr. O. V. Aplin recorded the increase of 

 Jays in Oxfordshire in the autumn and winter of 1882-83 

 {op. cit., 1883, p. 128). In a renewal of the discussion on 

 this subject some twenty years later, Mr. Aplin says of the 

 Jay at Bloxham, " Very few breed in this neighbourhood, 

 but more visit us every autumn" {op. cit., 1903, p. 28). 



I took advantage of the availability of Dr. Ticehurst 's 

 series to examine all the Jays in my collection, with the result 

 that we discovered another example of Garrulus g. glandarius, 

 a male shot at Fairlight, near Hastings, Sussex, on December 

 8th, 1903. 



It appears from the published records that an immigration 

 of Jays into this country may be looked for about the first or 

 second week of October, and it would be of interest if examples 

 from other counties could be submitted to examination, so 

 that the extent of the migrations of the Continental race in 

 Britain may be determined. L. A. Curtis Edwards. 



PIED FLYCATCHER IN STAFFORDSHIRE. 



As records of the Pied Flycatcher {Muscicapa h. hypoleuca) 

 are by no means common in Staffordshire, the following note 

 may be of some interest. On May 13th, 1919, at Stourton, I 



