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Records of the Ringed Plover {Charadrius Maticula), 

 Dunlin {E. alpina) Common Sandpiper (T. hypoleuca) 

 and Redshank {T. totanus) have been omitted, but in 

 addition Mr. H. G. Alexander reports an immature 

 Cormorant {Phalacrocorax carbo) from the Upper 

 Bittell Reservoir from August 12th to 19th, a Red- 

 necked Grebe {Podiceps griseigena) on December 2nd 

 and an immature Black Tern {Hydrochelidon nis,ra) 

 on August 26th. N.F.T. 



AVOCETS WASHED UP IN LANCASHIRE. 

 While walking along the shore between Birkdale and 

 Ainsdale (Lanes) on December nth, 192 1, I found the 

 remains of three Avocets {Recurvirostra avosetta) along the 

 high tide line. The beaks and legs were broken in each case 

 but the plumage and feet rendered them unmistakeable. 

 They had evidently been washed up by the tide. I am sending 

 a pair of the wings for 3/our inspection. F. K. Boston. 



Golden Oriole in Wigtownshire.^ — Sir Herbert Maxwell 

 records [Scot. Nat., 1921, p. 132), that a friend of his repeatedly 

 heard singing and eventually saw a Golden Oriole (Oriolus 

 0. oriolus) in a plantation of young Scots pine and birch near 

 Monreith, in June 1921. The bird was evidently a male, and 

 there was no evidence of its having a mate. 



Reported Pied Flycatcher in co. Mayo. — Mr. J. Flinn 

 of Tully Lodge, Louisburgh, reports {Field, Dec. 10, 1921, 

 p. 758) that he captured a " female " Muscicapa hypoleuca 

 fluttering against a window of his house about midnight on 

 November 23rd, 1921. The bird was identified by reference 

 to Howard Saunders's Manual and released next morning. 

 As Mr. Flinn observes, the date is extraordinarity late. Only 

 fourteen occurrences of the bird in Ireland have been noted. 



Great Spotted Woodpeckers Nesting in Argyllshire 

 AND Perthshire. — With reference to the notes already 

 published on the nesting of Dryohates major in Argyllshire 

 (see Vol. XIV., pp. 62-63), it is interesting to note that 

 Mr. J. H. P. Leschallas records {Scot. Nat. 1921, p. 154) the 

 bird as nesting in 1921 in Glenfinart, Ardentinny (two nests 

 found and possibly two other pairs) and at Castle Lachlan, 

 Strachur, Loch Fyne (one nest seen with young). Mr. M. R. 

 Tomlinson, on the same page of our contemporary, records 

 finding a nest with young in 1921 in a wood in the Trossachs. 



Green Sandpiper in Sussex in Winter. — Mr. Charles G. 

 Young writes that he put up a Tringa ocJiropus from a stream 

 on the Crowhurst Marshes on February nth, 1922. 



