216 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. xv. 



Late Stay of Yellow Wagtail. — Dr. Norman H. Joy 

 reports seeing a Motacilla f. rayi near Reading, Berks, on 

 October 20th, 1921. 



Great Grey Shrike in Devonshire. — Cadets J. P. W. 

 Furse and 11. T. Bonhani report that they saw a Lanins 

 excubitor at Dartmouth on October ist, 14th and i6th, 1921. 

 On the first occasion he was seen to seize, kill and carry off a 

 Long-tailed Tit from a mixed flock that was feeding on 

 dandelion heads on the lawn in front of the Royal Naval 

 College. 



Late Stay of Red-backed Shrike. — Cadets J. P. W. 

 Furse and H. T. Bonham inform us that they identified a 

 Lanius collnrio at Dartmouth on October 30th, 1921. 



Buff-Coloured Robin in SuRREY.--Mrs. A. Patteson 

 writes that she has had a buff-coloured Robin {Erithacus r. 

 melophilns) in her garden at Limpsfield since the early summer. 

 It is light buff all over with a red breast and cream-coloured 

 tail and wing feathers. Two points of interest about it are 

 that it appears to add a certain record to those that show 

 that some British Robins are permanent residents and that 

 it is the same colour now as it was before the autumn moult. 



Black Redstart in Sussex.- -Mr. P. Rickman writes that 

 a male Ph. 0. gibyaltariensis was shot at Berwick on November 

 2nd, 1921. 



Common Buzzard in Sussex. — Professor Kennedy Orton 

 informs us that he watched a Bitieo b. buteo soaring over the 

 Downs near Wilmington Hill on September 25th and 26th, 1921 . 



Golden-eye in Sussex.- -Mr. P. Rickman informs us that 

 he shot an immature Biicephala c. clangula at Berwick on 

 October 30th, 192 1, an unusually early date for the Sussex coast. 



Breeding Habits of the Turnstone. — Corrections. — The 

 photograph reproduced on page 177 is of the male bird, not 

 female as stated. This correction was noted, unfortunately, 

 too late for this alteration to be made before printing. 



Mr. Seton Gordon writes with reference to Mr. Paget 

 Wilkes's statement {antea, page 178) regarding the cock bird 

 incubating when the eggs are within a day or two of hatching, 

 that during his two days' watching of a nest with eggs on the 

 point of hatching, he only once saw the cock incubating. 

 Mr. Gordon also points out that on page 173, line i, the date 

 should read July 3rd-8th, not June 3rd-8th. 



Late Stay of Land-Rail in Hampshire. — Mr. Gilbert W, 

 Galton states that a Land-Rail {Crex crex) was killed by a dog 

 at Christchurch, Hampshire, on January 8th, 1922. 



