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the tree. This is late for the Long-tailed Tit to commence breeding here. 

 I have seen two other nests in apple trees in my garden, at a similar or 

 greater distance from the ground ; and a fourth nest in a hawthorn bush, 

 which, as well as I remember, was but six or eight feet from the ground, 

 but this was in an unfrequented island in my ponds. — Richard J. Ussher 

 (Cappagh, Co. Waterford). 



Nesting of the Long-tailed Titmouse. — Since writing my note on 

 this subject (p. 187), I found in the New Forest, on April 27th, a Long- 

 tailed Tit's nest containing eight eggs, and placed in a large beech-tree, 

 exactly forty-five feet from the ground. Within two hundred yards of this 

 tree was another nest, containing ten eggs, of the same species, but placed 

 in the ordinary way in a blackthorn bush, and only four feet from the 

 ground. — C. Uygrave Wharton (Hounsdowu, Totton, Southampton). 



Cole Tit nesting on a Window-sill. — There is now (May 2nd) 

 silting on ten eggs, on a window-sill at Hoddesdon, at the height of about 

 twenty-five feet from the ground, in a little box, a Cole Titmouse. Its 

 perfect tameness and the extraordinary situation of the nest seem worth a 

 record. — J. H. Gurney, jun. 



Firecrest in Oxfordshire. — The only example, so far as I can learn, 

 hitherto recorded from this county, of the Firecrest, Regulus ignicapiUm, 

 was killed near Banbury, in December last. It appears to be an adult male, 

 the crest being of a brilliant orange colour, and the lines on the face very 

 distinct. The " remarkable yellowish green patch which pervades the 

 shoulders and sides of the neck" (vide Rodd's ' Birds of Cornwall,' p. 42) is 

 very noticeable. — Oliver V. Aim. in i Banbury, Oxon). 



Norfolk Plover in Confinement. — The Norfolk Plover, the par- 

 ticulars of which were mentioned by my father in ' The Zoologist' last year 

 (p. #84), lived five months, and died on the last day of December. I have 

 more thau once known them kept as late as this. It always sought con- 

 cealment in the day-time, and its power of hiding was certainly curious. 

 If its feet had not got diseased, from the soil of the garden, so different 

 from its native heath, it would have lived all through the winter. Though 

 Norfolk has always been considered the head-quarters of this species, it is 

 not a common bird, and a very local one. — J. H. Gurney, Jun. (Northrepps, 

 Norwich). 



Manx Shearwater in Jersey.— It may be interesting to place on 

 record the recent occurrence of the Manx Shearwater {Pujftnus anglorum) 

 in Jersey. This is a rare bird in the Channel Islands, where it is regarded 

 as an accidental visitor. It is omitted from Prof. Ansted's list of the 

 ' Bud? of the Channel Islands,' and Mr. Cecil Smith, in his 'Birds of 



