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CONTINENTAL JAYS IN NORFOLK. 
I HAVE for some time suspected that the Continental Jay 
(Garrulus g. glandarsus) must occur in Norfclk during the 
winter because, though not a very common bird in the nesting 
season (which is hardly surprising, considering the extent of 
game preservation), Jays are remarkably abundant in Norfolk 
during the winter months, it being no uncommon thing to see 
as many as fifteen or twenty put out of one smail wood by 
the beaters, when covert-shooting. During the past winter I 
have had the opportunity of examining a good many Norfolk- 
killed specimens, and have been struck by the greyness of the 
back of some of them. i 
I therefore recently sent five skins, which had been shot in 
Norfolk during January and February, 1918. to Dr. Hartert 
at Tring. 
He has very kindly compared them with the series in the 
Tring Museum, and reports that three of them are undoubtedly 
of the Continental race (Garrulus g. glandarius), the remaining 
two being British (Garrulus g. rufitergqum). I believe the 
only other counties from which the Continental Jay has up 
to now been recorded are Kent and Sussex. B. B. RIVIERE. 
MARSH-WARBLERS BREEDING IN SUSSEX, 
WARWICKSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE, 
On July 12th, 1917, I found on an island in a Sussex pond 
a nest with three eggs, which I at once suspected of being 
those of a Marsh-Warbler (A. palustris). Several pairs of Reed- 
Warblers nest at the pond, but I had never known them 
breed outside the reeds, which form an extensive bed. This 
nest, however, was in meadow-sweet at the edge of the island, 
and it was roughly made and had handles, which, though 
not very striking to begin with, soon became a prominent 
feature when the nest had been blown about a bit by the 
wind, and more especially when the eggs were superseded by 
the heavier nestlings. None of the stems went through the 
nest itself. One egg was taken and submitted to Mr. Jourdain, 
who stated that it might well be a Marsh-Warbler’s, though 
not of the typical type, but rather approaching an unusual 
variety of the Reed-Warbler. After the other two eggs 
had hatched out, one of the old birds was shot, its most 
marked feature just afterwards being the extreme lightness 
