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STONE-CURLEW BREEDING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 



In 1909 a farmer living on a part of the Chilterns in 

 Buckinghamshire told me that he felt sure that the § tone- 

 Curlew {Burhinus oe. osdicnemns) bred regularly on his farm. 

 I expressed my doubts as to whether some mistake had not 

 been made, and spent a whole day at the farm trying to 

 find the birds, but was unsuccessful. On May 23rd, 1910, 

 he brought me two eggs which one of his men had found 

 that day while horse-rolling one of the fields. These eggs 

 are now in the Aylesbury Museum. I then asked the 

 farmer to do what he could to see that the birds were not 

 molested in future. 



This year he brought me a photograph (taken by a friend 

 on April 19th) of another nest on his farm, and he has since 

 let me know that the eggs hatched off safely. The gentleman 

 who took the photograph writes me as follows : — " The eggs 

 Avere deposited on a flat place scratched out in a furrow and 

 were surrounded by a collection of small chalk stones. I 

 think the Great Plover is not so rare in Bucks, as is 

 commonly supposed, as I have heard of several places on 

 the Chilterns where it breeds regularly." I may say that 

 I have never seen one of these birds in Buckinghamshire 

 until this year, when I saw one on April 28th about six miles 

 from where the photograph was taken. This was on a large 

 flinty field quite suitable for a nesting site, but closer to 

 houses than I have previously seen these birds. 



Edwin Hollis. 



[Dr. Hartert in the Vict. Hist, of Buckinghamshire (1905) 

 speaks of this species as formerly not uncommon in several 

 localities, but now not nesting anj^where in the county, and 

 not even recorded on trustworthy evidence as having been 

 heard for years past, so that the above record is of con- 

 siderable interest. — Eds.] 



YELLOWSHANK IN SUSSEX. 



Two examples of the Yellowshank {Tringa flavipes) were 

 obtained at Camber, Sussex, on August 15th, 1914. I 

 examined them in the flesh on the following morning, when 

 one proved to be an immature male, and the other an adult 

 female. This is, I believe, the first time that the species 

 has been obtained m the county. It is also curious that 

 these two birds were shot by a young man who was under 

 the impression they were Redshank S; and had he not been 

 successful in obtaining some of the latter he would not 



