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LATE NESTING OF THE CIRL BUNTING IN 

 SOMERSET. 



A NEST of the Cirl Bunting [Emheriza cirlus) that I had 

 under observation near Martock, contained three eggs on 

 August 25th, 1920. This was the complete clutch. The 

 usual number in this district is four, but I have found five, 

 though the latter number is rathei" uncommon. 



Joseph H. Symes. 

 [It may be considered almost as the normal habit of this 

 species to breed as late as August in the south-western counties 

 of England, where it is probable that three broods are reared 

 annually. Incubated eggs have been found in the nest in 

 Dorset as late as September 6th, and young in down on 

 September 15th, 1910, in Somerset, by Mr. H. W. Mapleton, 

 cf. British Birds, Vol. III., pp. 125 and 195. — F. C. R. 



JOURDAIN.] 



WOOD-LARKS IN MONTGOMERYSHIRE. 



Early in September 1919 I twice met family parties of 

 Wood-Larks {Lulhtla a. arborea) in Montgomeryshire. The 

 first occasion was about 15 miles west of Welshpool, and the 

 second near Newtown. I have no doubt they breed in this 

 county on the bracken-covered hillsides which abound, and 

 I hope to make certain next year by finding a nest. 



W. M. CONGREVE. 



LATE NESTING OF SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



With reference to Mr. Musselwhite's note {antca, p. 116) on 

 this subject, it will perhaps be of interest to record that on 

 August 29th, 1920, I saw at Godstone, Surrey, a pair of 

 Spotted Flycatchers {Miiscicapa s. striata) feeding two young 

 birds in very mottled plumage, and which had probably not 

 left the nest more than a week before m}' observation was 

 made. Howard Bentham. 



SEDGE -WARBLER BREEDING AT UNUSUAL 

 HEIGHT. 



On May 23rd last I found a nest of a Sedge-Warbler 

 {Acrocephaltis schcenobcemis) in a thick thorn hedge on West 

 Sedgemoor, in Somerset, at the unusual height of 7 feet from 



