VOL. XI. ] NOTES. 45 
RARE BIRDS IN SUSSEX. 
I wisH to record the occurrence of the following birds in 
Sussex in 1916 :— 
RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER (Muscicapa p. parva).—A 
female was shot by J. Saunders at Rye Harbour, Sussex, 
on October 3rd, 1916. It was examined in the flesh by 
Mr. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 
Dusky WarBLER (Phylloscopus fuscatus)—A bird of 
this species was shot at the old Brickfields at West St. 
Leonards, Sussex, on October 18th, 1916. It was examined 
in the flesh by Mr. Ruskin Butterfield. Mr. Bristow, who 
set it up, considered it a female by dissection, but Dr. Hartert, 
who examined it after being set up, thought it a male from 
its length of tail. This is the second British specimen, the 
first having been obtained at Auskerry (Orkney) on October 
3rd, 1913. 
ORPHEAN WARBLER (Sylvia h. hortensis)—A male shot at 
the old Brickfields, West St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 
September 21st, 1916, was examined in the flesh by myself 
on September 22nd. This is, I believe, the fifth recorded 
English specimen. 
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOvER (Charadrius d. dominicus),—A 
female was shot by T. C. Relfe at Rye, Sussex, on September 
22nd, 1916, and was examined in the flesh by myself or 
September 25th. The wing measures 81 mm. 
J. B. NicHots. 
DISPLAY OF THE STONECHAT. 
On June 7th, 1917, I for the first time noted a pair of Stone- 
chats (Saxicola t. hibernans) in the King’s Park, Edinburgh, 
and that under pleasing circumstances. I heard close by, 
an excited warbling and there was a male Stonechat dis- 
playing before a female. What was most noticeable was the 
the extent of white he displayed. He crouched low before 
her with his primaries stiffly lowered, brushing the grass. 
The carpal joint was buried under the white collar puffing 
out the white feathers and making the white neck appear the 
size and shape of a shilling, and at the same time making 
the white of the neck continuous with the white of the wing- 
coverts. The tail was expanded fully and the white of the 
coverts was so spread over it as to make the proximal half 
of the tail appear white. WILLIAM SERLE. 
TWO CUCKOOS’ EGGS IN NEST OF MEADOW-PIPIT. 
On June 9th, 1917, I found, on Buildon Moor, adjoining | 
Shipley Glen, the nest of a Meadow-Pipit (Anthus pratensis) 
containing four eggs, one of which was a Cuckoo’s 
