28 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Zoologist' with all the circumstances, and state whether he found the eggs 

 or young birds. — R. J. Usshek (Cappagh, Co. Waterford). 



Phalaropes, Fulmar Petrel, and Montagu's Harrier near Hastings. 

 — After the stormy weather in October last 1 shot a Grey Phalarope 

 (Phalaropus lobatus) on the marshes near St. Leonard's, and two more 

 were shot in the same vicinity. From other places in the neighbourhood 

 many more were recorded, and at the same time a Red-necked Phalarope 

 (P. hyperboreus) was killed. In the last week of October a Montagu's 

 Harrier (Circus cinereus) was shot on the marshes to the east of Hastings 

 and sent over to a local taxidermist for preservation, who also had a fine 

 Fulmar Petrel (Procllaria glacialis), found a year ago in an exhausted state 

 on the marshes near Rye. — F. V. Thkobald (St. Leonard"s-on-Sea). 



Snow Bunting on Ben Nevis in Summer, — During a short tour in 

 Scotland last September, while staying at Fort WiUiam, we made the ascent 

 to Ben Nevis, and there at the Observatory saw Snow Buntings in their 

 summer residence, and from information heard that they breed there, being 

 seen the whole spring and summer. — E. C. Moor (Great Bealings, Wood- 

 bridge, Suffolk). [See a note on the Snow Bunting breeding in Scotland, 

 Zool. 1886, p. 336.— Ed.] 



Nesting of the Sedge Warbler. — Last summer I took two nests of this 

 species, differing considerably in their construction from the general 

 fashion, and partaking more of the character of the Reed Warbler than that 

 of the Sedge Warbler; both are lined with hair, in one some feathers are 

 interwoven with the lining. The bottom of both nests was placed at least 

 twelve inches from the ground, in reeds and sedge by the side of the 

 Norwich River, near Hardley Cross, and in both reeds pass through the 

 fabric of the nests, though they are not so actually dependent from the 

 reeds, as is the case, so far as my experience goes, with the Reed Warbler. 

 I was, however, so much struck with the peculiar construction of these 

 nests, that I captured the two birds belonging to one of them ; they 

 proved to be Sedge Warblers. — G. Smith (Great Yarmouth.) 



Immigration of Fieldfares. — On November 8th we were visited by 

 numerous flocks of Fieldfares, all flying in the same direction, from east to 

 west, the flights continuous and following each other at short intervals. 

 Thev did not deviate from their course in the least, but each flock followed 

 in the direction of the one before it. They flew low, just topping the 

 hedges and woods ; a few struck against the telegraph wires on our 

 railway; five were picked up and brought to me in the evening. I 

 observed a similar occurrence, in vastly superior numbers, in the autumn 

 of 1878, just previous to the two following severe winters, since which time 

 Fieldfares about here have been scarce. — Walter Prentis (Rainham). 



