THE ZooLocistT—ManrcH, 1876. 4833 
turned out again. As long ago as 1837 it set up its claim to be a British 
bird in the same author's ‘ Birds of Europe,’ upon which authority it was 
subsequently inserted in Jenyns’ ‘ British Vertebrates’ (p. 98), among the 
indented birds without descriptions; and it is also placed in the doubtful 
list at the end of Doubleday’s ‘ Nomenclature of British Birds;’ and other 
books which I do not know of may possibly notice or include it. But what we 
have to do with is its more recent admission into Gould’s ‘ Birds of Great 
Britain,’ for which I am mainly accountable. I stated to Mr. Gould that in 
Mrs. Clarke’s collection I had seen an undoubted male specimen which she 
believed was shot in Norfolk, and which was marked in the Catalogue as 
“a fresh specimen.” Since then that noble collection—containing among 
other rarities, one of the most perfect specimens of the great auk known to 
exist—has been most generously presented to the Norwich Museum, and I 
have been able to look it over at leisure. With the assistance of Mr. Reeve, 
the Curator, I have made a slight but rather important discovery concerning 
the white-collared flycatcher. The birds are all marked with small tickets, 
and this one is marked “ No. 3,” corresponding, as I hitherto supposed, 
with “ No. 38*” in the Catalogue; but there is also another “ No. 3” in the 
case, which is a pied flycatcher, and another “ No.3” in the Catalogue. It 
is therefore impossible to say to which in the case ‘“ No. 3” in the Catalogue 
(the one marked as ‘‘a fresh specimen ”’) refers, but the inference naturally is 
that it refers to the pied flycatcher, and this is strengthened in my mind by 
observing that two other foreign birds have been admitted, evidently in 
mistake for their duller and commoner English representatives. The 
gentleman who formed the collection made it a rule to admit none but the 
very finest specimens obtainable, and I suspect that the white-collared 
flycatcher was selected and put in as a very bright example of the pied 
flycatcher.—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
On the Redwing Nesting in England.—The first supposed instance of 
the redwing’s breeding in England, brought forward by Mr. Feilden in a 
quotation from the ‘ People’s Magazine,’ appears to have been recorded in 
the ‘ Zoologist’ before (see Zool. 6563, 6638, 6675). I say supposed, 
because, from the evidence there given, it appears very doubtful what bird 
the eggs were really laid by. At the same time I have no more doubt that 
the redwing does occasionally stay and nest than I have of its singing in 
England, though both these events are very much rarer than certain writers 
would have us believe.-—Id. 
Curious Situation for a Robin's Nest.—I was shown a nest the other 
day as curious as any that have been recorded for a long time, in regard to 
the situation which the bird (a robin) adopted. A velvet scoter had been 
stuffed and cased, but the glass of the case had been accidentally broken. 
Through the fracture the bird obtained ingress, and in the case it made a 
snug nest under the velvet scoter’s tail, and laid some eggs, I believe; but, 
