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black bar in the wing, and light bay spots on the flanks and outer tail-feathers. 

 A specimen of this description came under my notice to-day, killed near Carclew. 

 — Edward Hearle Rodd ; Penzance, June 12, 1868. 



Thrush singing while flying. — With reference to Mr. Hensmau's note (Zool. S. S. 

 1218) on a thrush singing while flying, it may be interesting to him to know that a 

 similar circumstance has lately come under my own observation : as one day in April 

 I noticed a blackbird fly some distance from one tree to another, in full song the 

 whole time; and, on the same day, a chaffinch flew off the road in front of me to a 

 neighbouring tree, and when about mid-way burst into its joyous little song. — G. F. 

 Mathew; Dartmouth, May 23, 1868. 



Nidification of the Bohemian Waxwing in England. — Does the Bohemian wax- 

 wing {Ampelis garrulus) ever breed in this country? The following facts would cause 

 us to believe that it occasionally does so. A male bird was shot here in January last, 

 and towards the end of April a pair of them were seen in a tree near this house. On 

 Sunday, the 31st of May, a young one was caught by my butler while entangled in 

 some rough grass near a fine specimen of Pinus Douglasii in my pleasure-ground: 

 he perceived no red marks on the wing-feathers, but on the crown of the head the 

 rudiments of the future crest were apparent. After having kept it in a small box for 

 more than half an hour be placed it on the top of the iron railing, where the old birds 

 immediately came to it, both the male and the female : the latter was more shy than 

 the former, and would not permit his near approach ; the former was much more 

 brilliant in the plumage, and he distinctly saw the red marks at the tip of the wings: 

 having watched them all for some time, he saw them take flight upon his return, and 

 as they flew away to some trees near the spot he observed similar yellow bands on the 

 tails of both the old birds. The whole family were noticed at intervals in the same 

 locality for upwards of a week afterwards by my butler, gamekeeper and gardener, but 

 they could not succeed in capturing any of them. What we took to be the nest was 

 placed on the upper side of a branch of the Douglas's pine, about twenty yards above 

 the ground, and consisted of wool, intermixed with fibres of grass and bits of the 

 same fir: its shape was quite destroyed in our attempts to take it down. — Oswald 

 Mosley ; Rolleslon Hall, near Bur lon-on-Trent, June 13, 1868. 



Willow Wren's Nest in a Magpie's. — On the 31st of May I found a willow wren's 

 nest and six eggs placed on the top of au old (wood pigeon's?) nest in a dead fir tree, 

 about fifteen feet from the ground. To make sure that it was not a wren's nest I laid 

 down on the ground, and soon saw the bird go into the nest: she had doubtless flown 

 out as I ascended the tree. 1 have never before found the willow wren's nest more 

 thau a foot from the ground, and this, I think, only twice, though a gentleman showed 

 me a nest, two or three years ago, which had been built in a yew tree two or three feet 

 from the ground. — John S. Thomasson ; Moorfleld, Bolton, June 1, 1868. 



Quails in Suffolk. — About the 20th of May several quails arrived in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Scole, where they seem to be disposed to breed, and I need hardly add 

 that the gentleman on whose estate they have made their appearance will not permit 

 them to be molested. — Alexander Clark-Kennedy ; Little Glcnham, Wickham Market, 

 May 28, 1868. 



Quails nesting near Henley-on-Thames. — Last Monday, the 8th of June, I had 

 eleven eggs of the quail brought me; they were mown out in an upland grass-field, at 

 Remenham, in our neighbourhood. This is the first time I have met with the eggs of 



