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NOTES FROM CORNWALL. 



Brambling {Fringilla montifrinE^illa). — A single bird was 

 seen with Chaffinches {F. c. ccelebs) at Gunwalloe in Mount's 

 Bay on November 4th, 1919, possibly a rather early date for 

 this district. 



Black Redstart {Phoenicurus 0. gibraltariensis). — -Three 

 were seen near Fowey on October 22nd, 1919, single birds 

 in different places in the same district on the 26th and 29th, 

 and a male at Gunwalloe on November 4th. 



Greenshank {Tringa nebularia). — One was in Mount's Bay 

 at Penzance on November 9th, 1919. 



Grey Phalarope {Phalaropus fulicarius). — -One which 

 was swimming in the Fowey River near Golant on October 

 31st, 1919, had still distinct traces of chestnut about the 

 breast. 



Bl.\ck-necked Grebe {Podiceps n. nigricollis) .—Two in 

 winter plumage were diving repeatedly just outside the 

 harbour at Penzance on Noven\ber nth, 191 9. 



A. W. Boyd. 



NOTES FROM LEICESTERSHIRE. 



Short-eared Owl {Asto f.jiammeits) does not seem to have 

 been recorded often from Leicestershire, so I may note that 

 a male was taken at Oueeniborough on October 13th, 1919. 



Hobby [Falco s. siibbuteo). — A pair reared one young one 

 which had left the nest by July 12th, 1919. They had used 

 an old Sparrow-Hawk's nest in the fork of an oak. 



Green Sandpiper {Tringa ochropus). — A female, moulting 

 some of the primaries and wing-coverts, was obtained on 

 July 14th, 1919, at Barkby Thorpe. 



Black Tern {Hydrochelidon n. nigra). — A party of nine 

 visited some flooded ground near /^ueeniborough several 

 times during the first two weeks of 'May 1919. One I obtained 

 taken on the 9th or loth proved to be; p^ Hue adult male. 



^^ . Hubert Barrow. 



LATE NESTING /.F LI>fNETS. 



With reference to Mr. H. H. -. arwig'^' note {antea, p. 194) 

 I found two nests of the Linnet {Cardnelis c. cannabina) in 

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