50 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. viii. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT AND NUTHATCH 

 IN ANGLESEY. 



On May 17th, 1914, my brother and I heard and saw a Lesser 

 Wliitethroat {Sylvia c. curruca) in a garden on the south 

 shore of Red Wliarf Bay on the east coast. 



On the same date Me both watched for some minutes 

 a sohtary Nuthatch {Sitta e. hritannica) in an oak tree, between 

 Beaumaris and Llanfaes. Apparently this is the second 

 instance of the occurrence of this species on the island. 



Richard W. Jones. 



SHORT INTERVAL BETWEEN TWO NESTS OF ROBIN. 



In an outhouse at the Junior School, Felsted, Essex, four 

 disused leather horse-shoes were hanging from a nail in 

 the wall. In February a pair of Robins {Dandalus r. melo- 

 philus) took possession of one of these, and the first egg was 

 laid on March 10th. In due course the eggs hatched out, 

 but too frequent inspection at this period by the small boys 

 caused the birds to desert. The Robins then nested in a 

 ditch not many yards away, and reared a brood. After that 

 they came back and made use of another horse-shoe. The 

 young birds left this on June 10th. I watched carefully 

 the last day or two the yoimg were in the nest, and could 

 only detect one bird feeding the young. Another bird, which 

 I thought to be the male of the pair, seemed not to take the 

 least interest in the yoxmg. He spent his time in singing in 

 a tree by the door and in building a nest in the third horse- 

 shoe. It may be mentioned that the third and fourth shoes 

 had been separated from the others in April and placed on 

 the opposite side of the room. When the j^oung left the nest 

 in the second shoe, the nest in the third shoe had been lined 

 ready for use. There Avas also a small amoimt of nesting 

 material in the fourth shoe. On June 19th the nest in the 

 third shoe contained four eggs and incubation commenced. 

 For two pairs of Robins to build in the same small room 

 Mould seem verj^ extraordinary ; on the other hand if, as I 

 consider, the two last nests belonged to one pair, the interval 

 between the fledging of the brood and the laying of the other 

 set of eggs Mas remarkably short. J. H. Owen. 



ALPINE SWIFTS IN SUSSEX. 



In the early part of June, 1914, a couple of Alpine Swifts 

 (Apus m. melha) Mere noticed flying in company Mith common 

 Swifts at Winchelsea, Sussex, the Mhite imder-parts being 

 very conspicuous as the birds Mere flying low at this period. 



