170 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vii. 



fresh. With these two exceptions, none of the nests which 

 I have examined in this part of Gloucestershire contained 

 more than five eggs and many of them held only four. 



Cecil Martin. 

 [Although clutches of six eggs are not uncommon in 

 this species, it is very rarely that this number is exceeded. 

 An instance of seven eggs being found in a nest in 

 Somerset is recorded by Mr. S. Lewis, in the Zoologist 1906, 

 p. 316.— F.C.R.J.] 



YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING IN NORFOLK. 



At Cley on September 4th, 1913, the wind being in the north- 

 east, I secured by some extraordinary chance another specimen 

 of the Yellow-breasted Bunting {Emberiza aureola) which I 

 added to the British list on September 21st, 1905. The 

 most prominent feature of this bird in the field is the very 

 marked eye-stripe. It has also much white in the tail. 



E. C. Arnold. 



TREE-PIPIT AND PIED FLYCATCHER IN IRELAND. 



On September 3rd, 1913, Mr. F. J. Duffy, Lightkeeper at 

 Rockabill, co. Dublin, found two birds dead at the base 

 of the tower. Both were forwarded to me in the flesh, 

 one proved to be a female Tree-Pipit [Anihus t. trivialis) 

 in fair condition, the other a j'^oung Pied Flycatcher 

 (Micscicapa h. hypoleuca). 



Prof. Patten has already recorded [Irish Nat., 1912, p. 209) 

 the Tree-Pipit from the Tuskar Rock, co. Wexford, one 

 obtained on September 10th, the other on September 22nd, 

 being the first authentic occurrences in Ireland. Prof. Patten 

 suggests that it was emigrating from Ireland, and that Irish 

 ornithologists should use every effort to prove that it breeds 

 there. This species has been met with in some numbers by 

 Mr. Eagle Clarke in St. Kilda, in the autumn, and is a great 

 Straggler, and the fact of its occurrence in September at the 

 Irish Light stations does not necessarily prove that it breeds 

 in Ireland or was emigrating, any more than the Pied 

 Flycatcher which was picked up dead at the same time, being 

 the eleventh autumnal specimen of this species forwarded to 

 me- from Irish Lighthouses since 1886. 



Richard M. Barrington. 



GREY WAGTAIL BREEDING IN HAMPSHIRE. 



A Grey Wagtail {Motacilla b. hoarula) built this spring in 

 a hole, where a broken brick had been displaced, in the 

 waU of the Manor House at Buriton, Hants. Unfortunately 



