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have drawn the admission from the Halifax dealer who 

 supplied the bird that his information regarding " localities " 

 is, at all events sometimes, made for business purposes (c/.. 

 Naturalist, 1915, pp. 3-5 and 60). The record must therefore 

 be cancelled, and ornithologists will be duly thankful to 

 the editors of the Naturalist for disposing of a bad record. 

 The editors' conclusion (p. 60) that having proved this one 

 record wrong therefore other recent " new records " from 

 other sources should be deleted can scarcely be deemed 

 judicial, to say the least. 



Notes on some Passerine Braos found Migrating in 

 Moult. — Under this title Miss L. J. Rintoul and Miss E. V. 

 Baxter contribute an article of considerable interest to the 

 Scottish Naturalist (1914, pp. 245-252). The authors have 

 examined a large number of specimens taken at lighthouses 

 and isolated islands on migration, and have found that a 

 good many examples of various species show signs of moult 

 in the body-plumage, while in rare cases some tail- or wing- 

 feathers were partly in quill. From the details given it 

 would seem that at all events the majority of these birds 

 were not commencing a moult, but had not quite completed 

 it, before they migrated. 



Great Tits in Shetland. — Mr. J. S. Tulloch notes {Scot. 

 Nat., 1914, p. 287) that two Great Tits were procured in 

 Lerwick at the end of October, 1914. The Great Tit is only 

 an occasional visitor to the Shetlands, and it is possible 

 that these were of the Continental form. 



Blackbird and Song-Thrush Feeding on Daisies. — 

 Mr. W. Evans writes {Scot. Nat., 1914, p. 289) that he has 

 watched a Blackbird on several days greedily devouring 

 daisies, and Mr. J. K. Nash states in the same number (p. 290) 

 that he has seen a Song-Thrush in two different seasons 

 (1913 and 1914) feeding a fully-fledged young one with 

 daisies. In both cases only the flower-heads were eaten, 

 the full length of stalk being left standing in the ground. 



Black Redstart in Shetland.— Mr. J. S. Tulloch records 

 {Scot. Nat., 1914, p. 287) that an immature male Phmnicurus 

 0. gihraltariensis obtained in Bressay was given to him on 

 October 30th, 1914. 



Spotted Crake in Shetland. — Mr. A. J. Nicholson 

 reports {Scot. Nat., 1914, p. 288) that an example of Porzana 

 'porzana (which the Editors state has only occurred on three 

 previous occasions in Shetland) was shot at Fetlar on 

 October 19th, 1914. 



