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of the Vole is noticed, but I can find no mention of it, save in 

 Lydekker's 'Handbook of British Mammals,' where he cites 

 Trevor-Battye as having noticed the same thing. The Water 

 Vole is unknown in Ireland, so far as I am aware. — -G. C. May, 

 13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, November 27th, 1920. 



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BIRDS. 



Late Stay of Swift. — I watched one flying round, at 

 Devonshire Park, Keighley, on November 7th, 1920, A 

 strong South-east wind had been blowing for a week. — 

 E. J. S. Craven. 



Black Redstart at Whitby .^ — On New Year's Day I heard 

 of a Redstart being seen at the foot of the East Cliff, near the 

 beach. I visited, the place, and on January 4th had ample 

 opportunities of identifying it as a Black Redstart, in female 

 plumage. On subsequent dates I had the bird under observ'a- 

 tion. It is nearly twenty years since the last record of this 

 bird came under notice here. — F. Snowdon, Whitby. 



Late Willow Warbler at Bolton Abbey. — On the morning 

 of Saturday, November 27th, I was surprised to see a Willow 

 Warbler in the gardens here. It was diligently searching 

 some rose trees for food, and I was able to approach within 

 nine feet. There were no other birds in its company, except 

 some Robins near by. A search later in the day failed to 

 trace it. In Nelsons ' Birds of Yorkshire,' there is a record, 

 of precisely the same date, in 1893. — Thomas Roose. 



Swallow near Whitby in December. — During bright, 

 genial, spring-like weather on December 29th and 30th, a 

 male swallow was observed on the wing for several hours, 

 near River Garden, at Sleights, near Whitby. Eventually 

 it flew into the Station Hotel, Sleights, where it was kept 

 alive some time. — F. Snowdon, Whitby. 



The bird was kept alive for a short time by the landlord of 

 the hotel, but, as might be expected, soon died. The body 

 was presented to the Whitby Museum for preservation.— R.F. 



Gannet with Abnormal Eyes. — It is interesting to 

 learn from Mr. Andrew White, lighthouse keeper on the Bass 

 Rock, that the Gannet with the abnormal black eyes, which 

 we saw and photographed in August, 1914 (sec T/ic Nafiiralist, 

 October, 1914, p. 315), and which we christened ' Black-eyed 

 Susan,' has again turned up. In the interval between 1914-20 

 she has not been seen, but of course may have nested in some 

 other part of the rock ; this last season she has returned to 

 her old place and was found nesting within 3 feet of thc^ IQ14 

 site. — R. Fortune. 



