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another in Yorkshire on the 18th, were decidedly early 

 arrivals, and Greenland Wheatears on the Pentland Skerrie& 

 on August 7th and in Ross-shire on the 15th were exception- 

 ally early, while two Waxwings {A. g. garrulus), in Westmorland 

 on April 23rd and 24th, 1913, were staying late in winter 

 quarters. 



Among the uncommon visitors recorded most have been 

 mentioned in our pages, but the following deserve notice : — 

 Blue-headed Wagtail (M. /. flava), Thanet (Kent), one April 

 14th and 15th, 1913, Llandudno (Carnarvon), one April 25th. 

 a pair 27th ; Northern Willow-Warbler {Ph. t. eversmanni) , 

 Bardsey, April 10th, Channel Isles, May 6th and 9th ; Blyth's 

 Reed-Warbler {A. dumetorum), one at the Dudgeon Light- 

 vessel (Norfolk) on the night of October 20th-21st, 1912, 

 is an interesting addition to those already recorded in the 

 same autumn (c/. Vol. VI.) ; a Nightingale (L. m. megarhyncha) 

 at the Bishop Rock Light (Scilly Isles) on September 17th. 

 1912. and a Black Redstart {Ph. o. gihraltariensis) at the 

 Skerries Light (Anglesey) on October 13th, 1912, are interest- 

 ing occurrences owing to the localities ; a Greenland Falcon 

 {F. r. candicans), Scilly Isles, March 15th, 1913; a Temminck's 

 Stint {E. temminckii), Aldringham (Suffolk), August 28th, 

 1912, is also an interesting occurrence. 



Altogether the Report is well up to the standard of previous 

 issues and deserves the hearty support of all those interested 

 in the subject.— H.F.W. 



A Summer on the Yenesei (1914). By Maud D. Haviland. 

 Illustrated. Arnold. 10s. 6d. net. 



Miss Haviland, who is well known to our readers as a most 

 enthusiastic ornithologist and clever bird-photographer, and 

 has already contributed to our pages very interesting articles 

 on the nesting of Curlew-Sandpipers and Little Stints on the 

 Yenesei, has now written a most entertaining volume, of 

 considerable literary merit, on her adventurous journey. 

 Miss Haviland joined a party of anthropologists 

 consisting of Miss M. A. Czaplicka, Miss D. Curtis and 

 Mr. H. U. Hall, and proceeded at the end of May, 1914, to 

 Krasnoyarsk, where they took steamer for Yeneseisk. Here 

 they embarked on June 12th on the first steamer to make 

 the' trip that year down the great river Yenesei. This river 

 journey of fifteen hundred miles occupied more than a 

 fortnight, and though unfortunately there was little oppor- 

 tunity for going ashore. Miss Haviland made the most of her 



