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Pintail {Anas acuta). — A few pairs nest and both the 

 male and female attend the brood. 



Water-Rail {Rallus a. aquaticus). — The finding of the 

 nest of this species on more than one occasion is mentioned. 

 There do not appear to be any previous records of its breeding 

 in the O. Hebrides. 



Crested Tit reported Breeding in South-West Inver- 

 ness-shire. — Mr. M. Matheson states {Field, March 6th, 

 1920) that Pants cristatus scoticus is resident in the old fir- 

 and pine-woods of both Achnagarry and Glengarry, and 

 that he has found one or two nests yearly in Glengarry 

 for the last thirty years. If no mistake has been made, 

 this is a very interesting observation, and it is curious that 

 the presence of the bird in this district has hitherto been 

 unknown to Scottish ornithologists, or, at all events, un- 

 recorded. The range of the Scottish Crested Tit, for a long 

 time considered to be confined to the Spey Valley, was 

 recorded a few years ago as extending to east Ross-shire (see 

 Brit. Birds, Vols. IX., p. 182 and XII., p. 165). and now a 

 long way to the south-west by Loch Arkaig. 



Great Grey Shrikes in Essex and Surrey. — Mr. P. D. 

 Hayward informs us that a Great Grey Shrike {Lanius e. 

 excuhitor) was seen by Mr. W. E. Glegg in Epping Forest on 

 December 25th, 1919, and January nth, 1920, and by him- 

 self on March 20th and April 2nd and 14th. On each occasion 

 the bird, presumably the same individual, was seen in the 

 same locality. Another is recorded {Field, April 17th, 1920) 

 as having been seen on Ham Common on April 5th. 



Red-backed Shrike in East Ross-shire. — Miss Annie 

 C. Jackson records an immature Lanius c. collurio obtained 

 near Portmahomack on September 4th, 1919 {Scot. Nat., 

 1920, p. 54). It appears to constitute the first authentic 

 record of the species from the Moray area. 



Little Owls in Yorkshire. — We hear very little of Little 

 Owls in Yorkshire, though it has penetrated into the southern 

 half of that county, but as the species does not range far north 

 on the continent it is not likely to spread quickly or far to the 

 north in Great Britain. It is interesting to note, therefore, 

 that Mr. W. Rowan records {Nat., 1920, p. 134) that he heard 

 one on March loth, 1918, near Skipton in the West Riding, 

 and Mr. E. W. Wade records another {t.c, p. 140) taken in a 

 rabbit trap on the Warter Estate in the Wold district on 

 January 29th, 1920. Mr. Wade remarks that a pair was shot 

 at Leconfield in the Wold in October 191T 



