OTES 



AQUATIC WARBLER IN CORNWALL. 



An Aquatic Warbler {Acrocephalus aquaticus) was killed at 

 the Eddystone Lighthouse, off Cornwall, on October 11th, 

 1907, and a wing sent for identification. ^ -g Ticehurst. 



WHITE WAGTAIL IN CORNWALL. 



It may be worth while to record that a specimen of the White 

 Wagtail {Motacilla alba) was killed at the Eddystone Light, 

 off Cornwall, on October 11th, 1906, and a wing sent for 

 identification. ^ ^ Ticehurst. 



BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 



In August, or early in September, 1907, a specimen of the 

 Blue-headed Wagtail [Motacilla flava) was shot near 

 Nottingham. The bird was seen at Rose's, the taxidermist, 

 of Nottingham, by Mr. J. Musters, who had it sent to me, as 

 he felt sure it was a Blue-headed Wagtail. Mr. G. Millais 

 and Mr. H. E. Dresser have also examined it and pronounced 

 it to be a specimen of M. flava. j y^^^^^j^j^^^ 



[This bird was shown to Dr. C. B. Ticehurst and myself 

 by Mr. Dresser, and as it has been suggested that the bird must 

 have been bred near the place of its capture it is as well to 

 point out that the plumage of the bird affords no proof that 

 this was so. Had it been in the pipit-like juvenile plumage 

 of the species, it might have been well said that the bird had 

 been bred near by, for this plumage is retained but a very 

 short time after the young has left the nest. But the specimen 

 in question was already in its first winter plumage, and was 

 therefore perfectly capable of flying from the Continent, or 

 elsewhere. — H. E.'^W.] 



AN ESCAPED NUTCRACKER. 



I NOTICE in last month's British Birds (Vol. I., p. 388) 

 a note to the effect that a Nutcracker was shot " in Kent " 

 on December 29th, 1907. It would be interesting to know 

 in what part of Kent this bird met its death, inasmuch as a 

 Nutcracker escaped from my aviaries on December 26th, 

 1907, three days previous to the time when the bird recorded 

 was shot. This house is about five miles from the Kentish 



