The Zoologist — February, 1874. 8865 



garden warbler, bathing itself in the dew-water collected in the 

 leaves of his cabbages. He watched it carefully whilst it performed 

 this operation, first on one cabbage and then on another, during 

 which time it frequently uttered a note which he compared to 

 "sawing." When shown a collection of skins of warblers he 

 selected a rather pale-coloured specimen of the garden warbler as 

 the one he saw. 



Blackbird.— A. very unusual number of these birds at Keswick, 

 near Norwich, at the present time, are charged with destroying a 

 field of wheat by picking the grain out of the ground, but leaving 

 it on the surface. Has such been observed by other of your con- 

 tributors ? They are said to devour seed-wheat sown near hedges, 

 but why pull up and leave it ? Thrushes I know will devour much 

 grain, and even dry husk, as my aviary birds do constantly, though 

 well supplied with soft food, worms, snails, &c. 



Henry Stevenson. 



• Norwich, December 30th, 1873. 



Notes from Leiston, Suffolk. By G. T. Rope, Esq. 



Nochile. — First seen on the wing on the 1st of April. 



Harvest Mouse. — Picked up two dead ones at a recently-threshed 

 wheat-stack in April. I afterwards caught a male, which I kept 

 alive for some time, but have now lost: he escaped once before, 

 and was loose in the room all night; but having jilaced his cage, 

 containing food and water, upon the floor, with the door open, he 

 again took possession of it, and was found in the morning coiled up 

 in his nest. 



Longtailed Field Mouse. — July 30th. Saw one of these mice on 

 the beach, among some tufts of coarse grass. 



Fieldfare. — Saw these birds for the last time on the 20th of May. 

 With the exception of a single one seen throughout the summer at 

 Blaxhall, probably a wounded bird, or ailing in some way, 1 heard 

 of no fieldfares this autumn before the 3rd of November. 



Blackbird. — Several times during this month (December) we 

 have seen a pied bird at Blaxhall : it is an adult male, with a fine 

 orange bill, and is black, with the exception of the cheeks, which 

 are white. 



Darlford Warbler. — December 16th. My brother picked up a 

 dead bird of this species this morning at Leiston. Is not this a 



