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my son and I ?aw by far the largest concourse feeding on 

 the fallen beeth-mast that I have ever witnessed. It is very 

 difficult to estimate numbers under certain conditions, but 

 there was one flock of at least several thousand birds all 

 feeding within quite a restricted area, not more than about 

 twenty five yards across, the other forest trees around seemed 

 to be alive with this bird, and I do not think I should over- 

 estimate their numbers if I concluded there were not less than 

 five thousand in all. I did not detect any Chaffinches or other 

 species of finch among them. J. Steele Elliott. 



GREY WAGTAILS BREEDING IN KENT AND SUSSEX. 

 It may be of interest to record that on May loth, 1919, I 

 discovered the nest of a Grey Wagtail {Motacilla c. cinerea) in a 

 hole in a wall bordering a small stream in Kent ; the eggs were, 

 however, cold and the nest deserted. Also on June 22nd, 

 1919, I found in Sussex another nest containing four young 

 newly hatched ; the nest was placed among some thick ivy 

 near the top of a wall and well concealed. I had found the 

 birds breeding in both these localities in 1915 and 1917, 

 and have every reason to believe that they do so regularly. 

 Neither of these nests was in a locality that has previously 

 been recorded. H. H. Earwig. 



[For previous records for Kent vide A History of the Birds 

 oj Kent, pp. 93-94 and Bnt. Birds, IV., p. 18, and for Sussex, 

 Brit. Birds, VI., pp. 17, loi ; VIII., p. 200. — Eds.] 



WILLOW-TIT IN ROSS-SHIRE. 



In Part 4 of A Practical Handbook of British Bird; it is 

 stated that the British Willow-Titmouse {Partis a. klein- 

 schmidti) breeds in parts of the Spey valley, but is otherwise 

 unknown in the north, except for a few isolated records 

 elsewhere in the Moray area. It may be worth recording, 

 therefore, that on June 24th, 1919, I saw in east Ross-shire 

 a family of what I described in my note-book as Marsh-Tits, 

 but which were no doubt Willow-Tits. J. Rudge Harding. 



WILLOW-TIT ON HIGH GROUND IN ABERDEEN- 

 SHIRE. 



On September 17th, 1919, when crossing the hills from Brae- 

 mar to Aviemore I was surprised to see a Willow-Titmouse 

 [Pants atric.ipilliis subsp. .'') just under 2,000 feet above sea 

 level. No woods or trees of any kind were within sight, and a 

 few hundred yards farther up the hill Ptarmigan are often seen. 



