1920,] BecenUy published Ornithological Works. 943 



prevailed l)etweeu October 28 and 30, and on the following 

 days very larj^e numbers of Rooks, and of some other birds, 

 sucli as Hooded Crows, Starlings, Redwings, were picked up 

 along the beaches of Norfolk and north SnfFolk from 

 Sheringham to Soutliwold. Only two Spoonbills visited 

 Breydon during the spring, but the report on the Bittern is 

 much more favourable and it appears to have established 

 itself fairly securely on some of the Norfolk Broads as a 

 breeding bird. 



R. Garney on the Black-headed Gull. 



[Breeding Stations of tlie Black-headed Gull in the British Isles. 

 By Uobert Gurney, M.A., etc. Trans. Norf. Norwich Nat. Soc. x. 

 1919, pp. 41G-447."] 



In this paper Mr. Robert Gurney has put together all 

 tiie information he has been able to collect in regard to the 

 nesting places or gulleries of Larus ridibundiis. New 

 gulleries are frequently formed and old sites deserted, but 

 Mr. Gurney is of opinion that this Gull is distinctly on the 

 increase in the Biitish Isles, a fact which niav be viewed 

 with considerable satisfaction. 



As regards England there appears to be no breedino- 

 colonies in any of the central counties south of Yorkshire. 

 One of the best known of the gulleries is the one at Scoulton 

 in central Norfolk, which lias been known since the time of 

 Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1082), who first described it. 

 The colony appears to be fairly constant in number, and 

 Mr. Gurney estiuuites the number of birds as about 2500. 



Harper on a new Hedge-Sparrow. 



[A new subspecies of Frunella modularis from the Pyrenees. Bv 

 Francis Harper. Pruc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 32, 1919, pp. 243- 

 244.J 



The Pyrencan Iledge-Sparrows collected by Mr. Harper 

 in April last year at an altitude of 1700 metres (about 5100 

 feet), in the Dept. of Pyrenees Orientales, were found by 

 him to be considerably greyer and less rufescent on the 

 back and wings than those of the typical form from central 



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