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in the sun on the top of a haystack and lazily drawling out 

 its monotonous song for the greater part of an hour. 

 I saw no hen-bird, but I think, from the date, that it must 

 certainly have been breeding. Walter B. Nichols. 



NORTHERN WILLOW-WARBLERS IN 



WIGTOWNSHIRE. 



On May 3rd, 1913, while staying at the Mull of Galloway for 

 the purpose of watching migrants, we saw a number of Willow- 

 Warblers in a hedge. A careful inspection of these showed 

 that they were all of the common form except one, which 

 we thought by the brown colouring of its upper-parts and 

 by its white under-parts was an example of the northern 

 form, Phylloscopus trochilus eversmanni ; we could not, how- 

 ever, get such a good view of the bird as to make certain. 

 On the next day, May 4th, we found in the same hedge at 

 least five, and probably six or eight (it was difficult to count 

 the exact number), undoubted examples of Ph. t. eversmanni. 

 We had many good views of them at very close quarters : 

 they were entirely brown (rather dark) on the upper-parts 

 without a trace of green, while their under-parts were grejdsh- 

 white with no yellow whatever except on the under wing- 

 coverts, and their eye-stripes were also quite white. 



The common Willow- Warblers had moved on, while a good 

 many Whitethroats, some Sedge- Warblers, a Redstart, and 

 a Spotted Flycatcher had come in. On the following day. 

 May 5th, the Northern Willow- Warblers had gone and the 

 whole place swarmed with Common Whitethroats ; there 

 must have been many hundreds, and quite a number were 

 to be seen on the rocks and beach ; there were also on 

 this day numbers of Sedge- Warblers and common Willow- 

 Warblers. J. G. Gordon. 



H. F. W^ITHBRBY. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT IN IRELAND. 



I HAVE just received from Rockabill Light, co. Dublin, a 

 specimen of the Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia c. curruca) (sex 

 not yet determined) . It was disabled by striliing on the night 

 of May 13th, 1913, and was accompanied by many Sedge- 

 Warblers and Common Whitethroats. This is the third 

 Irish record, and the first specimen received on spring - 

 migration, two others having been obtained in autumn — one 

 on October 1st, 1890, at the Tearaght Rock, co. Kerry, 

 and the second at InnishtrahuU, co. Donegal, on October 

 10th, 1899. Richard M. Barrington. 



