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CONTINENTAL JAY IN KENT. 

 Ox November 6th, 1920, I shot a specimen of the Continental 

 Jay {Garrulus g. glandarius) at Fairhill, between Tonbridge 

 and Sevenoaks. Records for Kent, particularly the west of 

 the county, appear to be not numerous. P. A. Buxton. 



BRAMBLINGS IN WESTMORLAND. 



The Brambling {FyingiUa montifringilla) is not usually a 

 very abundaiit or regular visitor to the Lake District, it is 

 therefore perhaps worth recording that large numbers have 

 been present this autumn (1920), no doubt attracted by the 

 exceptionally good crop of beech-mast, which seldom ripens 

 in this neighbourhood. The birds were first noticed on 

 October 20th, a flock of twenty or so, and thereafter in 

 increasing numbers until on November 9th a very large 

 assemblage was seen. They were wild and restless, and it 

 was difficult to make a satisfactory estimate of their numbers, 

 l)ut I have little hesitation in saying that there were not 

 fewer than one thousand, possibly far more. A. Astley. 



LATE STAY OF YELLOW WAGTAIL. 

 In British Birds, Vol. X., p. 269, I recorded a Yellow Wagtail 

 {M. f. rayi) seen at Alston, Cumberland, on November ist, 

 1916, but that record has been eclipsed to-day (Novem- 

 ber 30th, 1920). Walking up to. the village this morning, I 

 was astonished to see a female fly into one of the small 

 enclosures close to the houses. It had for companions on 

 the grass a couple of Mistle-Thrushes and seven Magpies. 

 The morning was bright and frosty after two or three days 

 of wet, muggy weather, l)ut later in the da'\' it clouded over 

 and turned wet again ; I Vv'as then out on the high fells grouse- 

 driving and the only non-game birds seen during the day 

 were several Snow Buntings, a Raven, and some Hooded 

 Crows — nothing unusual about these, but scarcely the sort of 

 birds one expects to see on the same day as a Yellow Wagtail ! 

 Alston, it may be added, stands 1,000 feet above the sea. 



George Bolam. 

 O.N December .4th, 1920, I saw a Yellow Wagtail on the shore 

 of Basscnthwaite Lake, Cuml)erland. There was no mistaking 

 the species, for I watched it through glasses from a very short 

 distance for several minutes, while it strutted about near the 

 edge of the water. H. A. Booth. 



GREY WAGTAIL BREEDING IN SUSSEX. 

 Two pairs of Grey Wagtails {Molacilla c. cinerca) bred on a 

 stream near Battle, within half a mile of each other, in 1920. 



