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of the neck and breast ; they were in company with a host of Peewits and 
Fieldfares, making a fine group as seen through the telescope—Arruur 
Lisrrr (Leytonstone), 
Icterine Warbler in Norfolk.—It is as well to place on record, in ‘ The 
Zoologist,’ particulars of the capture of a British specimen of the Icterine 
Warbler, Hypolais icterina, which was exhibited by Mr Dresser at a 
meeting of the Zoological Society on the 14th November last, as already 
noted (Zool. 1884, p. 493). The specimen referred to, as I am informed by 
Mr. Dresser, was shot by Mr. F. D. Power on the 11th September last 
near Blakeney, where he found it in a thick clump of thistles along the 
Cley sea-wall. It was alone at the time, although a number of Wheatears, 
Redstarts, and one Bluethroat were observed the same day arriving from 
the north, the wind being E.N.E. The sex was undetermined ; the plumage 
indicated a bird of the year.—J. E. Hartine. 
The Barred Warbler in Norfolk.—At a meeting of the Zoological 
Society, held on the 4th November, 1884, the Rev. H. H. Slater exhibited 
a specimen of the Barred Warbler, Sylvia nisoria, which had been obtained 
in August, 1884, on the Yorkshire coast, and particulars of the capture were 
subsequently communicated to ‘The Zoologist’ (1884, p. 489). At the 
Same meeting another example of this bird was exhibited by Mr. Dresser, 
the history of which has not yet been roted in this Journal. It was shot 
by Mr. F. D. Power on the 4th September last from scrub at the base of 
Blakeney Sandhills, Norfolk, where Garden Warblers on migration were at 
that time numerous. It was the only bird of the kind observed, and 
proved on dissection to be a female. In plumage it closely resembled the 
specimen described by Mr. Slater (J. ¢.), being in fact, like the latter, a bird 
of the year.—J. EK, Harrie. 
Ornithological Notes from Somerset.—I forward a few notes of occur- 
rences in this county during the last six months, the first I regret to state 
being the destruction of two pairs of the Great Spotted Woodpecker, Picus 
major, by far the least common Woodpecker in Somersetshire. They were 
shown to me on the 9th of July as having been shot near Taunton, both 
pairs being then set up and cased ; in both instances the female, as far as I 
could see, showed signs of having been sitting, the breast of each bird 
_ being partially denuded. On the 6th of August, while driving home 
from Taunton, an acquaintance called to me over the hedge of his garden 
to come in and identify a clutch of eggs he had had brought to him that day, 
and which he supposed to be Quail’s eggs. I accordingly went in, and 
found the eggs to be undoubtedly those of a Quail. My acquaintance had just 
blown some of them, which he said were quite fresh. From the lateness of 
the season these must have been a second laying, the first very likely having 
been destroyed by a mowing-machine earlier in the summer. In former. 
