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//. hypoleuca) and found its nest in the parish of Contin. 

 east Ross-shire in May 1919. The bird has not hitherto been 

 fonnd breeding north of Inverness-shire in Scotland. Mr. 

 Kirke also makes the equally interesting announcement \loc. 

 cit.) that he found the Garden- Warbler {Sylvia horin) nesting 

 in the same parish in May 1919. He had seen the bird and 

 heard it singing in the previous summer, but failed to find the 

 nest. In 1919 the bird returned and Mr. Kirke found the nest 

 on May 24th, while on the 29th it had four eggs. The Garden 

 Warbler was not previously known to breed north of south 

 Perthshire. 



Great Grey Shrike in Essex. — Mr. William E. Glegg 

 writes : " On December 25th, 1919, I identified a Great Grey 

 Shrike (Laniiis e. excnbilor) in Epping Forest, Essex. The 

 bird was boldly perched on the highest twig of a tree, and 

 gave me plenty of time to get my binoculars on to it." On 

 January nth, 1920, Mr. Glegg saw probably the same bird 

 at the same place. 



Fulmar Petrel Breeding off North Uist. — Sir Arthur 

 J. Campbell Orde records {Scot. Nat., 1919, p. 166) that 

 Fitlmariis g. glacialis, which has been extending its range 

 so much of recent years, bred in 1919 on the Haskier Rocks, 

 eight miles north-west of Griminish Point, N. Uist. This 

 is a new locality. Four nests were found. 



Common Redshank Breeding in Outer Hebrides. — In 

 discussing the status of Tringa totanns in the Outer Hebrides, 

 Mr. F. S. Beveridge states {Scot. Nat., 1919, p. 186) : " From 

 personal experience T. totamis is found to be common and 

 resident, though breeding in no great numbers." This applies 

 especially to Benbecula, North and South Uist, and Mr. 

 Beveridge thinks it may be scarcer in Lewis, Harris and 

 Barra. 



LETTER. 



THE AUTHORSHIP OF [SIR] CHARLES HASTINGS' 



" ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY 



OF WORCESTERSHIRE "■ . . . London . . . 1834. 



To the Editors of British Birds. 



Sirs,- — I possess a copy of this book annotated, about 1855, by a 

 former owner, Edwin Lees, the well-known Worcestershire botanist 

 (Mullens and Kirke Swann's Bibliography of British Birds, p. 346), 

 who was honorary curator of the Worcestershire Natural History 

 Society's Museum, a member of the Zoological Committee, and secretary 

 to the Meteorological Committee. 



My copy is of interest since the annotations go to prove that Edwin 

 Lees" wrote the greater part of the book ; as the following notes will 



