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by the fishermen before coming ashore ; and I noticed, also, that 

 a few old Rooks on the Kunton beach came regularly to feed on 

 the same diet, when washed up by the tide. This is a common 

 habit with them in the autumn and winter, in company with 

 the Grey-back Crows ; but I had never noticed it before in the 

 nesting season. 



On the 4th of June, an adult Night Heron was seen by 

 Mr. Cremer, at his pond at Beeston. At Palgrave, near Diss, 

 my friend, Mr. Ringer, had his attention drawn to the note of 

 the Wryneck, and on tracing the sound to an old Scotch fir in 

 the churchyard, he saw two of these birds, sitting, one above the 

 other, each on a short, broken branch projecting from the trunk, 

 and as they uttered their notes with a curious elongation and 

 twisting of the neck, they seemed to lean hard against the bole 

 of the tree ; and this they continued to do till he was tired of 

 watching them. 



(To bo continued.) 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SWITZERLAND. 

 Bt W. Warde Fowleh, M.A. 



The following notes, made by me in Switzerland last summer, 

 may perhaps be of interest as supplementing the observations 

 on Swiss birds recently contributed to 'The Zoologist' by Dr. 

 Hamilton and Mr. Backhouse. 



While visiting Stanzstadt, on the lake of Lucerne, on the 2Gth 

 June, 1 883, I observed a pair of Blue-headed Wagtails, Motacilla 

 flava, by the lake. The landlord of the hotel showed me a fine 

 Bittern, shot by himself, but said it was not a resident species. 



On the road to Engelberg, on June 27th, Buzzards, Magpie, 

 Redstart, Ridicilla plicenicura, and Marsh Tits, slightly different 

 in colouring from ours as I fancied, the white on tk<e throat and 

 sides of the head occupying a larger space. In the Bern 

 Museum is a varietj', more resembling P. ater, and wrongly 

 marked "P. borealis, var. alpestris, Bailly." See Pi'of. Newton in 

 Yarrell's ' British Birds ' (ed. 4, i., p. 49). 



June 28th. — At Engelberg, Black Redstarts, R. titijs, Whin- 

 chats, and Tree Pipits were all abundant. We heard a single 



