228 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vii. 



SISKINS IN ANGLESEY. 



The Siskin {Carduelis spinus) has rarely been noticed in 

 Anglesey. On the morning of October 9th, 1913, some 

 thirty birds were feeding on seeding knapweed on a bank 

 at the edge of Holyhead harbour. They rose in a twittering 

 crowd on being disturbed, but after a short flight returned 

 to the bank again. Their occurrence in this bare and tree- 

 less district, so uncongenial to the Siskin's usual habits, 

 suggested that the birds were newly -arrived migrants. It 

 seemed likely, too, that other species had made an oversea 

 passage during the night, for there were many Goldcrests 

 in the gorse bushes at the harbour's edge and several 

 Brambhngs, associated with Chaffinches, in the woods at 

 Penrhos, three miles away. Chas. Oldham. 



MEALY REDPOLL IN LEICESTERSHIRE. 



In Mr. Montagu Browne's Vertebrate Fauna of Leicestershire 

 there is no mention of the Mealy Redpoll {Carduelis I. 

 linaria) as occurring in the county. Though, no doubt, 

 an uncommon winter- visitor, I feel sure it must occur 

 occasionally among the migrant flocks of Lesser Redpolls 

 which regularly visit us, and as a confirmation of this I 

 saw on November 18tli, 1913, a pair of these birds caught 

 by a Hinckley bird-catcher on November 9th, on a farm 

 at Shenton, six or seven miles from Burbage, Leicestershire, 

 with some Lesser Redpolls. Stephen H. Pilgrim. 



SHORE -LARK IN BEDFORDSHIRE. 



During the last week of October, 1913, a mature cock 

 Shore-Lark (Eremophila a. fiava) was caught on the Dun- 

 stable Downs, in Bedfordshire. The bird was trapped with 

 a number of common Sky-Larks. No others of the species 

 were observed. Wlien I saw the bird it was doing well in 

 a large cage, eating mostly canary-seed. It seemed to be 

 ■getting tame very quickly. W. Rowan. 



GREY WAGTAIL BREEDING IN HAMPSHIRE. 



Since the publication of the Birds of Hampshire (in 1905) 

 the Grey Wagtail {Motacilla h. hoarula) has so increased as 

 a breeding species in Hants, that it may now be considered 

 a resident pretty generally distributed throughout the 

 county in suitable localities, whereas it was formerly only 

 very local in its distribution. Very few of the mills on the 

 Hampshire streams are without a pair of these birds nesting 

 In their vicinity. Philip W. Munn, 



