5120 Tue ZooLtocist—OcrToBeER, 1876. 
last Bank-holiday he and his son took sixteen garden warblers, besides no 
end of other birds. The net covers the whole of the piece of water, and 
I should judge it to be, when shut, about six yards long and four feet 
across. It is the most ingenious contrivance I ever saw. I hear a glossy 
ibis has just been taken in Sussex, but I have not seen it.—J. H. Gurney, 
jun.; Hotel de St. Antoine, Antwerp. 
Pied Wagtail building in a Thrush’s Nest——Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. * 
mentions (Zool. S. 8. 5003) an instance of a pied wagtail using a blackbird’s 
nest as the foundation for its own. A similar case came under my notice 
in May, 1874, where Mr. Purdy, of Woodgate House, Aylsham, showed me 
a pied wagtail sitting on her nest, in a tall laurel-bush, which she had con- 
structed in the hollow of a deserted song thrush’s nest. About a fortnight 
later, however, the young of the wagtail were found dead on the ground, and. 
the wagtail’s superstructure having been pulled to pieces, the original nest 
was restored and four thrush’s eggs laid in it; all, no doubt, the act of the 
original owner, who, disturbed in the first instance, had returned to take 
possession of her lawful property —H. Stevenson ; Norwich, July 12, 1876. 
Greenfinch nesting in a Furze-bush.—On looking over an old note-book 
in which I used to enter circumstances which seemed to me to be of 
uncommon occurrence, I find the following under date of June 19, 1875 :— 
“To-day I found, in a furze-bush, a greenfinch’s nest containing five eggs. 
This is the only time I ever observed this bird nesting in furze—the most 
favourite situation for the common linnet."—C. Matthew Prior. 
White Starling in Nottinghamshire.—Will some one one kindly inform 
me if white specimens of starlings aré of more frequent occurrence than any 
other kind of bird? Within the last six months I have recorded two 
instances in the ‘ Zoologist,’ and I saw another a few days ago in Notting- 
hamshire, which I endeavoured to obtain, but it never let me approach 
within gunshot.—Id. 
[The starling appears to be more subject to albinism than most birds. 
Not a year elapses in which we do not receive numerous notices of the 
occurrence of such varieties.—Eb. | 
Rosecoloured Pastor in the Isle of Wight.—Mr. Smith, the Newport 
taxidermist, informs me that a handsome male of this species, in perfect 
plumage, was shot at Mill Hill, West Cowes, on the 31st of July, when in 
company of starlings. ‘This is, I believe, its first occurrence on the island. 
H. Hadfield ; Ventnor, Isle of Wight, August 17, 1876. 
Rosecoloured Pastor in Hampshire.—It is a pleasure to be able to 
record the occurrence of a female of this rare species at Wood-green, on the 
borders of the forest, near Fordingbridge. I have not seen the bird, but my 
friend Mr. H. W. Aubrey, of the Rectory, Hale, who is now having it 
preserved, has kindly sent me the following note: —‘“It was shot by 
Mr. Hinxman’s gardener, and was apparently feeding on cherries when 
