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Ph. proregulus. The only other species on the British hst 

 which possesses a double wing bar is Eversmann's Warbler, 

 Ph. borealis, and a comparison with Dresser's plates and 

 descriptions has convinced me that the birds seen Avere not 

 of this species. They flitted about like Willow-Warblers, 

 but at times circled a bough almost like the Tree-Creeper. 

 My companions heard from time to time a pretty little song. 

 This is the first time that any of the rarer PhyUoscopi have 

 been recorded from Nottinghamshire. Chas. E. Pearson. 



WHITE'S THRUSH IN NORTHUMBERLAND. 



On November 2nd, 1914, when walking round Holy Island, 

 I saw a curious looking bird feeding on a rock near some 

 Starlings. There was a gale blowing and the rain made 

 it impossible to use binoculars, but the bird was so tired 

 that it allowed me to approach and stand within six feet 

 of it and note down its appearance, so that glasses were 

 fortunately unnecessary. It was without any doubt a 

 White's Thrush {Turdus d. aureus) ; the back speckled 

 with black, the buff edgings to the A\dng-coverts, and the 

 black crescent-shaped spots on the flanks were its most 

 conspicuous features. There had been a north-east ga)c 

 blowing for two days and nights. There appears to be no 

 previous record of White's Thrush for Northumberland. 



E. L. Turner. 



NOTES FROM THE SCILLY ISLES. 



Wheatear {(Enanthe oe. cenanthe). — In the paper on the 

 Birds of Scilly, by Messrs. Clark and Rodd (Zool., 1906, 

 p. 243) it is stated that this bird " breeds sparingly, 

 but is common during autumn migration." It also occurs 

 in numbers on the spring migration, and was a fairly common 

 breeding species on St. Mary's during 1914. 



Greenland Wheatear {(Enanthe ce. Uucorrhoa). — Messrs. 

 Clark and Rodd make no mention at all of this bird, yet 

 it occurs in large numbers on the spring migration, the 

 passage lasting over a month, indeed towards the end of 

 April they predominated over the British race. Dr. C. B. 

 Ticehurst, in his paper on the Greenland Wheatear {Brit. B., 

 Vol. II., p. 271) mentions that he has seen specimens from 

 this locality. 



Little Auk {Alle alle). — Mr. C. J. King writes me that 

 he and others saw one diving in the Pool, St. Mary's, on 

 October 14th, 1914. In the above-mentioned article on 

 the Birds of Scilly only one occurrence is given, viz., found 

 dead on St, Agnes, mid- winter 1900. H. W. Robinson. 



