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(February 5th) ; four were shot in the Ashford district 

 -about January 10th, and one about the same date at Sutton 

 Valence (Rev. J. R. Hale). Seven seen bet^veen January 

 11th and 20th at Dover (G. Mannering). Female shot, 

 Smarden, January 2nd (R. Cheesman). Female shot, 

 Westerham, January 29th ; two females shot Newenden, 

 January 30th (N.F.T.). Male shot, Cranbrook, January 30th 

 (R. Cheesman). 



Sussex. — Male shot, St. Leonards-on-Sea, February 7th 

 (N.F.T.). 



Surrey. — One at Roehampton on January 25th, feeding 

 on holly-berries {Field, 14.11.1914, p. 355). 



Ireland. 



Londonderry. — One was shot at Aghadowey on January 

 1st (W. C. Wright). 



Tyrone. — One ^^'as shot at Stuart Hall on December 25th, 

 this being the first record for the countv (N. H. Foster, 

 Irish Nat, 1914, p. 51). 



Down. — One was shot at Ardglass on January 27th (W. C. 

 Wright). 



Fermanagh. — " On January 10th I received a Waxwing 

 shot on west shore of Lough Erne, co. Fermanagh ; it was 

 probably killed about January 6th " (R. M. Barrington). 



Abroad. 



In the Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie (No. 58, pp. 241-43) 

 Waxwings are recorded from the following departments : 

 Pas-de-Calais, Calvados. Seine-et-Oise, Loiret, Cote-d'Or, 

 Haute-Saone, Jura ; also in Savoie, Switzerland, and 

 Provence. Most seem to have occurred at the end of Decem- 

 ber, but they appeared in Switzerland at the end of Novem- 

 ber. Le Gerfaut (Jan. 1914, p. 16) gives eight occurrences 

 from the Ardennes and three at Auvelais, November lltli 

 being the earliest date. Prof. Mathey-Dupraz of Colombier, 

 Switzerland, records in the Ornithologische Beobachter, XI., 

 p. 91, a flock of seven on December 12th, and further pas- 

 sages of migratory flocks on December 23rd and at the end 

 of the month. 



SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF IN KENT. 



On November 28th, 1913, near Tunbridge Wells, I Saw 

 a bird which I suspected was a Siberian Chiffchaff {Phyllo- 

 scopus coUybita tristis). Fortunately the bird remained 

 in the same place until December 17th, and as it was 



