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striking feature of the species. I judge the bird to be immature, 

 and the legs were of a very light flesh-colour. The wind at 

 the time was south-east, and the weather fine and hot. 



E. C. Arnold. 

 BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL IN NORFOLK. 



On September 23rd, 1908, one of the wildfowlers of Cley, 

 Norfolk, shot, at that place, an adult male Blue-headed 

 Wagtail {Motacilla flava flava). The bird was examined by 

 Mr. Witherby, and exhibited by him on my behalf at the 

 meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, held on 

 November 18th last. 



F. I. Richards. 



AUTUMN AND WINTER SINGING OF BUNTINGS. 



With regard to Mr. Oldham's note on the singing of a Cirl 

 Bunting in October, it was recorded some years ago in the 

 " Zoologist " by Professor Salter, that this species sings from 

 time to time throughout the winter in Wales. My brother 

 and I heard one at Reigate on October 31st this year, singing 

 in the morning and afternoon at the same place. The follow- 

 ing day I heard another. Between October 10th and 15th 

 on very warm days I heard several Yellowhammers, one of 

 them in full song, near Tunbridge Wells, and my brother 

 heard a Corn-Bunting singing in Romney Marsh on October 

 13th. We had not previously heard either of these two 

 species singing after the moult, and I think in the case of the 

 Yellowhammer at any rate, it is abnormal. We have not 

 heard any Reed-Buntings singing, however. As far as we 

 have observed, all the Corn-Buntings leave this part of the 

 country for the winter, so that there is no chance of hearing 

 them ; Yellowhammers are also a good deal less common, 

 and begin to sing as soon as they return in February. Between 

 November 12th and 20th, while staying in Hayhng Island, 

 Hants. I have heard Cirl and Corn-Buntings singing a good 

 deal, even on cool and sunless days. tt P A 



With reference to a note on a Cirl Bunting singing in October 

 {antea, p. 204), I find by my notes kept over some years at 

 Clevedon, in Somerset, that I have records of this bird's song 

 in every month in the year, my earliest date being January 

 8th, and my latest December 18th. tt ]vrT^,v tpk 



In the Mendip district of Somerset the Cirl Bunting sings 

 intermittently throughout the winter. One has been singing 

 here at Winscombe on more days than it has been silent 



