
YELLOW-BROWED AND BARRED WARBLERS IN 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
I rinp [ have omitted to place on record the occurrence of 
a Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus s. superciliosus) at 
North Cotes, on September 18th, 1915, and also of a Barred 
Warbler (Sylvia nisoria) at the same place on October 20th, 
1916. 
Both species have appeared so frequently that they may 
be considered almost as regular visitors to this county, and 
would, no doubt, be found on any part of the East Coast if 
carefully watched for. G. H. Caton Hatcu. 
FIELD-NOTES ON THE MARSH-WARBLER. 
Lizut. D. H. Meares finishes his interesting notes on the 
Marsh- Warbler by telling us that when once the young have 
left the nest, very little is seen or heard of them, nor can they 
easily be distinguished from the young of other allied Warblers. 
Doubtless the last words are true, in respect of their outward 
appearance : but my experience is that they can be distin- 
guished by their own alarm-notes as well as those of their 
parents. They stay two or three days in their osier-bed after 
leaving the nest, and I have several times had them all around 
me and occasionally within two or three feet of my head. 
The alarm-note of the parents is peculiar, more like the angry 
croak of the Nightingale than any other bird’s note known to 
me: but it is now and then interrupted by a musical Lark- 
like whistle, which is also heard in the song. I copy these 
words from a diary, July 12th, 1896. The young have the 
same note, but it is shorter and weaker, as I noted on July 
18th. (This was an unusually late nesting-season for these 
birds). The young were much darker and more rufous on 
the back than the parents, the breast and throat duller white, 
in fact almost buff, and the bill was yellower. 
W. WarveE FowLer. 
ABSENCE OR SCARCITY OF FIELDFARES IN WINTER 
1917-1918. 
THE great scarcity of the Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) in the 
British Isles during the winter of 1917-18 has now been so 
conclusively proved, that we do not propose to publish any 
further notes on the subject (Cf. antea, pp. 231 and 261). In 
