38384 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. Davenport found young birds in 1883 as early as April 8th. 
The earliest egg as yet noted was laid on March 18th, 1885. 
The most singular site for a nest which I have seen was one 
selected in April, 1885, in the garden of Mr. William Squires, on 
the Aylestone road. This nest was built on an ornamental 
wooden, semicircular projection, like a little bracket, above the 
door of the “ summer-house,” about six feet from the ground, 
perfectly exposed, and liable to be disturbed by anyone passing 
in or out; while not two feet distant was a growth of ivy covering 
the roof and sides of the house, in which the nest might have 
been well concealed. Notwithstanding the exposed situation 
selected the bird successfully brought off her brood. Varieties 
of this species occasionally occur, and Harley has recorded three 
albino birds taken out of a nest in the lordship of Aylestone. 
Turdus iliacus, Linn. Redwing.—A winter migrant, generally 
distributed in woodland districts throughout Leicestershire, 
arriving about the middle of October, and remaining sometimes 
until late in the spring. Harley observed it ‘“‘even after the 
month of June had come in,” which suggests the possibility of 
the Redwing sometimes remaining to breed with us; and I finda 
note by Mr. J. H. Ellis (Zool. 1864, p. 9242), which, assuming no 
mistake to have been made, would settle the matter. He writes: 
—‘ Mr. H. R. Hurst, of The Oaks, near Kirby Muxloe, states 
that a Redwing built in his grounds this spring. He is a keen 
observer, and not likely to be mistaken. One bird only was 
hatched, and he has kindly sent me one of the addled eggs. It 
is a trifle smaller than a Thrush’s egg, more rounded at the ends; 
the ground colour is a greenish white, spotted with reddish brown 
of various shades. I am not competent to form an opinion from 
the egg, but it certainly is none of our resident Thrushes.” This 
circumstance is also noticed in Mr. Harting’s edition of White’s 
‘Selborne,’ p. 159, note. In some years the Redwing appears in 
greater abundance than in others, and I imagine it to be more 
plentiful in Leicestershire than the Fieldfare. On Dec. 26th, 
1884, I was shooting at Knighton, and towards evening was in a 
“‘spinney,” when a vast number of Redwings flew in to seek 
shelter for the night. Flock after flock arrived, uttering their 
harsh cries, deepening to notes of alarm as they observed me. 
I shot several to be sure of the species, and this without 
frightening others, which kept on flying into the thicket until 
