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BRITISH BIRDS. 



1809," I am informed by Mr. J. A. Har vie- Brown that 

 after full consideration and investigation he considered this 

 record as imperfect, and as such placed it in square brackets 

 in his " Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin " (1895, Vol. I., 

 p. 300). Hugh S. Gladstone. 



BLACK-HEADED BUNTING IN SUSSEX. 



A male Black-headed Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala) 

 in full plumage was shot at Little Holm Farm, near Westfield, 

 Sussex, on May 5th, 1909. The bird was examined in the 

 flesh by Mr. W. Ruskin Butterfield. J. B. Nichols. 



RAVENS IN SHROPSHIRE. 



The attachment of Ravens (Corvus corax) to an established 

 breeding-place is notorious, but it is a singular circumstance 

 that a pair of these birds has this year taken up quarters in 

 a certain valley on the Lougmynd, where the last recorded 

 Raven's nest in Shropshire was destroyed in 1884. Whether 

 there be any connection between the original pair and the 

 new arrivals we have no means of deciding. 



H. E. Forrest. 



THE WHITE MARKINGS ON THE HEAD OF THE 

 YOUNG CUCKOO. 



The considerable amount of variation in the white markings 

 on the heads of young Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) seems to 



FIG. 1. 



