
HAWFINCH IN ANGLESEY. 
On June 23rd, 1917, whilst watching a pair of Red-backed 
Shrikes feeding young in the nest at Wern, Red Wharf Bay, 
Anglesey, I heard the unmistakable call-note of a Hawfinch 
(Coccothraustes c. coceothraustes) and saw one flying over in 
the direction of the shore, where I lost sight of it. This part 
of the island is fairly well wooded and no doubt the bird was 
breeding somewhere in the neighbourhood. There appears 
to be but one previous record of the Hawfinch for Anglesey 
—Mr. H. E. Forrest informs me that one was shot at 
Trescawen, Tregaian, in June 1906. 
8S. G. CuMMINGS. 
CURIOUS SITE FOR NEST OF CHAFFINCH. 
On May 14th, 1917, I was greatly surprised to find the 
nearly completed nest of a Chaffinch (Fringilla c. colebs) 
built into the end of a straw stack near Felsted, Essex. By 
May 19th three eggs had been laid, but later on the nest was 
destroyed. The choice of site is made more extraordinary 
by the fact that the stack was in a field, far from any 
buildings, and close to a tall fence full of the usual kind of 
places Chaffinches utilize. J. H. OWEN. 
WHITE WAGTAIL NESTING IN WESTMORLAND. 
As I am not aware that the White Wagtail (Motacilla a. alba) 
has ever been recorded for Westmorland on migration, and 
certainly not as nesting in that country, it may be of interest 
to state that on June 23rd, 1917, I watched a pair feeding 
their young at a place between Grasmere and Thirlemere 
Lakes. I saw them again on June 30th, when the young had 
evidently flown. Macpherson, in his Fauna of Lakeland, says: 
“ Whether the White Wagtail visits Westmorland or Furness 
on the vernal migration I cannot say.’ It certainly visits 
Furness and other parts of north Lancashire on the spring 
migration,as I see it nearly every year, but is far from plentiful. 
Mr. Thomas Jackson of Overton, in his long experience as an 
oologist, has yet to find the nest in Westmorland, Cumberland 
or Lancashire. H. W. Rosinson. 
