418 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
bourhood of Loughborough during the summer of 1864, as 
recorded at length in ‘The Ibis’ for 1867 (p. 469), and also in 
‘Our Summer Migrants’ (p. 91). 
Acrocephalus phragmitis (Bechstein). Sedge Warbler.—Sum- 
mer migrant. Generally distributed, and breeding. I have found 
it, at the Castle reed-bed, built both in reeds and in forks of osiers, 
and also, as in July, 1885, in the middle of a small whitethorn-bush 
by a ditch at Aylestone. This nest was extremely well constructed, 
and lined with the seed-tufts of the reed. Davenport says :—‘ In 
June, 1883, I found a nest of this species built at the top of a 
“ bullfinch hedge,” quite ten feet from the ground, near Shangton 
Holt. It contained four eggs.” 
Locustella nevia (Boddaert). Grasshopper Warbler.—Summer 
migrant. Sparingly distributed, and breeding. Macaulay records 
that a pair built under a bush in the garden at Gumley Rectory, 
1876, and when the young were hatched a good view was obtained, 
by him, of the old bird while engaged in feeding them. Mr. Daven- 
port found a nest in May, 1879, in Skeffington Wood, with five 
eggs; another in May, 1883, in a spinney near Ashlands, con- 
taining six eggs, and a third on May 2lst, 1884. I have not 
met with this bird around Leicester, though Mr. Macaulay notes 
it near Kibworth every year. 
Accentor modularis, Linn. Hedgesparrow.—Resident; gene- 
rally distributed, and breeding. Harley remarks that it is liable 
to a tubercular disease, and has seen the eyelids, base of the bill, 
and a great part of the occiput covered with small tubercles and 
warts; a peculiarity which I have myself noticed. 
Cinclus aquaticus, Bechstein. Dipper.— Resident, but rare. 
It occurred on the brook which flows down from the forest of 
Charnwood by way of Gracedieu Priory, and was observed by 
Harley on the brook which rises near Copt Oak and flows onward 
by the villages of Belton and Sheepshed, and thence into the 
Soar. Adams shot an example (in Harley’s time) on the stream 
which passes through Bradgate Park. Another was shot some 
years ago out of a brook near Noseley, and is now in Sir A. 
Hazelrigge’s collection. I purchased for the Leicester Museum 
a specimen said to have been shot near Syston or Queniborough 
three years ago, and the keeper of Thornton Reservoir told me 
that he had procured specimens there more than once during 
the past few years. 
