146 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. viii. 



on April 24th, 1906 {Bull. B.O.C., XX., p. 105). On the 

 other hand, Mr. W. Fitzherbert-Brockholes {British Birds, 

 VI., p. 126) records eggs on July 16th, 1909, arid Mr. H. F. 

 Withe rby found young almost fledged in Suffolk on August 3rd, 

 1914. As there is an interval of eleven or twelve weeks 

 between the earliest and latest records of eggs, it is tolerably 

 certain that in some cases two broods are reared. — F.C.R.J.] 



WILLOW-TIT IN NORTH-EAST NORFOLK. 



On September 8th, 1914, I heard and saw a Willow-Tit 

 {Par us atricapillus) in a plantation a few miles from the 

 coast of north-east Norfolk ; the previous day a remarkable 

 number of black-capped Tits (either Marsh- or Willow-) had 

 been noticed in another plantation rather nearer the coast. 



This suggests the possibility of a migratory movement 

 along the east coast in autumn, of which some evidence 

 has already been furnished in British Birds (Vol. IV., 

 pp. 248 and 284). The birds procured by Dr. C. B. Ticehurst 

 in Suffolk, and Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh in Lincolnshire, in 

 autumn and winter, were shown to be British Willow-Tits 

 {P. a. kleinschmidti). I was, of course, unable to assign 

 the bird I saw to any particular race. 



It may be worth while to add that in the second half 

 of September and the first week of October this year (1914) 

 I saw Willow-Tits with unusual frequency, and in an unusual 

 variety of places, near Tunbridge Wells. 



H. G. Alexander. 



ICTERINE WARBLER IN SUSSEX. 



A SPECIMEN of the Icterine Warbler {Hypolais icterina) was 

 obtained at Hollington Park, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, 

 on August 26th, 1914. I examined it in the flesh, and found 

 it to be an immature male. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



DARTFORD WARBLER IN WARWICKSHIRE. 



I AM not aware whether the Dartford Warbler {Sylvia undata 

 dartfordiensis) has been reported from Warwickshire ; the 

 species certainly does not appear in the list of birds com- 

 piled by the late R. F. Tomes for the Victoria History of 

 the Cou7ity of Warwick, Vol. I., 1904, nor is the county 

 credited with an occurrence in the fourth edition of Yarrell's 

 British Birds. During the past two days (October 9th and 

 10th, 1914) I have been watching an individual bird of this 

 species on a tract of gorse-land some few miles distant 

 from Stratford-on-Avon. For obvious reasons I do not 



