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On this occasion the Thrushes built a new nest in the 

 same place as the old one which we had removed. One 

 morning, after the bird had started to sit, there was an egg 

 on the ground under the nest, but the Thrush \\as sitting 

 later in the day. The next morning, \\'hilst I we^s looking 

 from a window at the nest, which the Thrush had just left, 

 a cock House-Sparrow approached and hopped into it. A 

 few minutes later I went out and found two of the remaining 

 eggs on the ground, and I think the Sparrow must have 

 got them out somehow, as there was no egg on the ground 

 when it went into the nest. The Thrush deserted. 



J. H. OwE-V 



INCURSION OF WAX WINGS.* 



Essex. — Several were seen in Dovercourt at the end of 

 January and the beginnmg of February. Four were killed 

 (W. B. Nichols). 



Shropshire. — Besides those previously reported, two more 

 Waxwings have been obtained in March and others observed 

 on Wenlock Edge and near Bridgnorth. One of the former 

 is dull in colour, and is probably a young bird (H. E. Forrest). 



Suffolk. — One picked up dead at Beyton on Jan. 21s1 

 (Rev. J. G. Tuck, Zool, 1914, p. 150). 



Surrey. — One at Dorking on March 27th (G. Stapylton- 

 Smith, Field, 4.IV.14, p. 734). 



Yorkshire. — Two at Sleights and four or five near 

 Sleights at the end of March (J. T. Sewell, Nat., 1914, p. 160). 

 Two at Holgate, York, about Jan. 10th (S. H. Smith, t.c, 

 p. 127). 



Westmorland. — Mr. Hulme Wilson also informs us that 

 several small parties of three, four, and six birds haunted 

 the neighbourhood of Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendal during 

 the early part of 1914 ; and one of his friends while on the 

 way to a meet saw two of these little flocks. 



Abroad. — A number of records of their appearance in 

 France are published in the Revue Francaise d'Orn., 1914, 

 pp. 258-60, 276-78. A summary of occurrences in Switzer- 

 land is given in Orniih. Monatsherichte, 1914, pp. 58-59. 



BLACKCAP IN LONDON. 



On the morning of April 22nd, 1914, 1 picked up in St. Martin's 

 Court, Ludgate Hill, the dead body of an adult male Blackcap 

 {Sylvia a. atricapiUa) : it \\as lying on the pavement close to 

 the \\all. 



*For previous notes on this subject see Vol. VII., pp. 263, 292, 319, 

 344. 



