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order to render the records as complete as possible we add a few 
references from various sources. Apparently a few flocks have 
passed through England on their way from the Continent. 
Kent : H. G. Alexander reports two and one, seen in mid- 
November, 1917, near Tunbridge Wells. 
Essex: A mixed flock of five Fieldfares and eight or nine 
Redwings seen on March 20th, 1918, in S.E. Essex (F. W. 
Frohawk, Field, April 6th, 1918). 
Leicester: Flock of fifteen to twenty Fieldfares seen on 
March 20th, and similar party on following day at Market 
Bosworth (R. A. Oswald Brown, Field, loc. cit.). 
Staffs: Flocks noted on November 3rd, and a few on. 
12th ; some in a mixed flock of Thrushes on 24th: also two 
small flocks on January 16th and one flock on March Ist, 
1918, near Froghall (T. Smith in lit.). 
Lanes: Not a single Fieldfare or Redwing seen in district 
from south of Manchester to Cheshire border from autumn 
1917 to spring 1918, an unprecedented record in nearly 50 
years’ experience (H. Massey, in litt.). 
Yorks : Sir A. E. Pease reports several flocks passing over 
Guisbrough on January 22nd, 1918; one of about sixty, 
another of about eighty, and a third of about a hundred, 
moving southward. No others seen.— A few small parties, 
September 27th, 1917, at Blackhalls. No others seen till 
March 19th, 1918, a flock of 200 between Danby and Castleton 
in Cleveland (C. E. Milburn). 
Scotland: Messrs. E. V. Baxter and L. J. Rintoul report 
no Fieldfares or Redwings seen up to February 5th, 1918, at 
Largo, Fifeshire (Scott. Nat., 1918, p. 93), and Mr. O. H. 
Mackenzie (op. cit., p. 34) states that no Fieldfares and only 
about twenty Redwings have been seen by him in West Ross. 
F. C. R. Jourpain, 
RING-OUZEL IN CO. WICKLOW IN WINTER. 
On January 14th, 1918, a Ring-Ouzel (T'urdus t. torquatus) 
was observed eating the berries of a Cotoneaster frigida at 
Mullagh Grange Con., co. Wicklow. The bird was shot and 
proved to be a female in excellent condition. 
W. J. WILLIAMS. 
[Ussher (Birds of Ireland, p. 8) says: ‘Thompson and 
Kinahan have mentioned irregular occurrences in winter, and 
other instances of this have been known since, but such are 
decidedly rare.’”” Thompson (Nat. Hist. of Ireland, 1., p. 
152) gives no details, but says merely that this species has 
occasionally been met with in Ireland during winter. In 
Great Britain such occurrences are by no means rare, and 
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