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birds of the year, when once the latter have fully developed 

 their flight-feathers " (Bull. B.O.C., XXV., p. 36). The 

 fulvous " notches," or tooth-like markings, often present on 

 the outer webs of the primaries and thought to be evidence of 

 immaturity (H. Saunders, Man. B.B., p. 570), Mr. Grant 

 clearly shows to be merely individual variation. The 

 differences in the spots on the uppersurface and in the barring 

 on the undersurface are also shown to be simply individual. 

 These observations were confirmed at the meeting of the 

 B.O.C. at which Mr. Grant made his remarks by Dr. C. B. 

 Ticehurst and Mr. J. L. Bonhote, who had also studied the 

 subject. Mr. Grant further made the suggestion that in the 

 Woodcock, as in the Cuckoo, males may be more numerous 

 than females, and that this might be proved by sacrificing 

 a few broods and ascertaining the sex of the four individuals 

 in each family party. 



Unseasonable Nesting. — In a note under this heading in 

 the last number (p. 309) Mr. Stanley Pershouse's name was 

 unfortunately spelt Pashouse. Miss E. L. Turner writes to 

 us that a Robin's (Eriihacus rubecula) nest with three eggs 

 slightly incubated was found under the tiles of a roof of a 

 catt-shed on January 26th at Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 



In the " Field " for February 5th, 1910 (p. 239), " G. B." 

 records from Devonshire that he found a young Song-Thrush 

 (T urdus musicus) only just able to fly on January 25th ; 

 while Mr. W. Cecil Braybrooke writes in the same Journal 

 from Fairford that a pair of Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) were 

 feeding young in the nest on January 26th ; from co. Kildare 

 Mr. S. G. Williams notes that a Pheasant's nest with two 

 eggs was found on January 30th. 



