5164 THE ZooLocist—NoveMBER, 1876. 
this species to the notice of the reviewer, which I have no doubt will be new 
to many others.—J. H. Gurney, jun. ; Nothrepps, Norwich. 
Late Fieldfares— In the ‘Zoologist’ for October (S. S. 5106), Mr. 
Stevenson records the occurrence of a late fieldfare. I may also state that 
I never knew their migration take place at so late a date as it did this year. 
Near this village are a few trees which fringe a small stream, on the tops 
of which I might say, without the least exaggeration, that there were 
thousands assembled in the evenings of the last few days of April. At their 
rendezvous they kept up an incessant chatter. They all disappeared on 
the 1st of May.—E. P. P. Butterfield ; Wilsden, October 12, 1876. 
Blackbird adopting a Young Sparrow.—On the 17th of June last I found 
a young sparrow half dead on the ground, having fallen out of its nest. It 
was entirely without feathers, and seemed to have been out of the egg about 
two days. I took it up, and, out of curiosity, put it into the nest of a 
blackbird which contained four quite fresh eggs, never in the least expecting 
that it would live; but upon looking at it on the 19th I found it quite 
lively and pretty well fledged, and grown a great deal, but there was only 
one of the blackbird’s eggs left. On looking into the nest on the 2lst 
I found that the sparrow was not there, and I suppose it had flown. Is not 
this unusual ?—Robert M. Christy ; 20, Bootham, York, Sept. 21, 1876. 
Robin nesting in a Room.—A pair of robins built their nest, and laid 
eggs in it, on the top of a clock in the parlour of a man named Clark, at 
Stanford Rivers, in Essex. Unfortunately his wife took the nest and flung 
it away with the eggs. The old birds used to come into the room by the 
door and window, and were very tame. Some time afterwards a single egg 
was found on the top of the clock without any nest. This egg is now in 
my possession.—Hdward H. Christy ; Oliver's Mount, Scarborough. 
Wood Wren in Perthshire, Ross-shire and Caithness,—In the ‘ Zoologist’ 
for October (S. 8. 5122) it is stated that the wood wren has not been recorded 
as having been observed to the north of Inverness, until the note by Lord 
Clifton of its occurrence at Kildonan. I find that this warbler is mentioned 
by Mr. E. T. Booth in his recently-published ‘ Descriptive Catalogue of 
British Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton,’ as being particularly 
numerous in many of the wildest glens of Perthshire, Ross-shire and Caith- 
ness.—H. Cooke ; Brighton, October 9, 1876. [This is so: the statement 
occurs at p. 107 of the Catalogue, which unfortunately has no index.—Ep.] 
Does the Common Starling rear Two Broods in One Season!—A dis- 
cussion on this subject was carried on in the ‘ Field’ newspaper some time 
ago, and though I have no wish to reopen it and transfer it to the ‘ Zoologist,’ 
I still wish to establish a fact in connection with it relative to these birds 
in this district. I believe Mr. Stevenson first mooted the point, and it 
ended, as discussions often do, in a draw. I had my own opinion on the 
subject at the time, but hesitated to give it until I had placed it beyond a 
