nOTES 



MARSH-WARBLER IN SUSSEX. 



On June 14th, 1919, my wife and I heard and saw a Marsh- 

 Warbler {Acrocephalus palustris), in a garden at St. Leonards- 

 on-Sea. It was in full song, but in spite of careful search 

 on the next and following days it was not to be found again. 



M. J. NiCOLL. 



BLACKBIRD LAYING EIGHT EGGS. 



Mr. Ticehurst's note on a Blackbird laying seven eggs 

 {antea, p. 274), induces me to record that on May nth, 1915, 

 I found a Blackbird's nest containing eight eggs. This 

 nest was well concealed in a gorse thicket adjoining a little 

 frequented path near the river Otter (Devon), and bore no 

 signs of having been tampered with or disturbed in any 

 way, and the eggs were all of very similar character. I 

 much regret that I had no opportunity of visiting the nest 

 again, so I am in ignorance of the fate of so large a clutch. 

 Seebohm {Col. Figs, of the Eggs of British Birds) mentions 

 that eight eggs have been occasionally found in one nest, 

 but it is, I suppose, conceivable that such a large number 

 might be the product of two hens, or else that some mischievous 

 person had inserted a few eggs. In this case, however, I do 

 not think the nest had been previously discovered and the 

 eggs seemed to be the product of one hen. 



W. Walmesley White. 



CURIOUS SITE FOR BLACKBIRD'S NEST. 



During the summer of 1917 a pair of Blackbirds {Turdus m. 

 merula) nested in one of the nest-boxes of an unused pigeon- 

 house standing on the ground in the garden of Mr. C. Allchin, 

 at Longfield, Kent. When seen by me the hen bird was 

 sitting on what I was informed was a second brood in the 

 same nest. It seemed quite tame, not moving when the 

 lamp light was turned on it. Frederick D. Welch. 



LITTLE OWL IN PEMBROKESHIRE AND 

 FLINTSHIRE. 



On March 12th, 1920, a Little Owl {Athene noctna) was 

 caught in a rabbit-trap near Solva (on the sea coast four miles 

 from St, Davids, Pembrokeshire). I have very carefully 



