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list during the last ten years with the one I have kept in Yorkshire for nearly a simi- 

 lar period, I am surprised to find that there is so little difference generally in the times 

 of the arrivals of our migratory birds in the respective counties. In one or two in- 

 stances, indeed, we seem to have the advantage. In 1846, these gentlemen record 

 the arrival of the chiff-chaff on the 25th of March ; it was an early spring : the little 

 migrant was with us as early as the 7th of the month, repeatedly uttering his simple 

 bitone, in Sir Joseph Copley's woods, on the banks of the Don. Is there a possibility 

 of the chiff-chaff ever hybernating so far north ? The wood warbler appears to arrive 

 later in Oxfordshire than with us: I generally hear his sibilant notes before the 1st 

 of May : in 1848 he appeared in the woods near the Hall on the 20th of April : this, 

 however, is my earliest record. The tree pipit with us invariably arrives in 

 April : I have not one date so late as May. The spotted flycatcher I have never 

 noticed before the 5th of May. — Peter Inchbald ; Storthes Hall, Huddersfield, March 

 8, 1850. 



Occurrence of the Fire-crested Regulus (Regulus ignicapillus) near Lewes. — On the 

 3rd of last month I obtained a specimen of this bird. The person who brought it to 

 me furnished me with the following particulars respecting its capture : while walking 

 beneath some fir-trees overhanging a turnpike-road in this neighbourhood, he saw 

 the bird fly from the trees and settle on a fence : here it ran about in a manner simi- 

 lar to the common wren, until he put out his hand and caught it. — Charles Potter ; 

 Lexves, February 15, 1850. 



Occurrence of the Crested Tit (Parus cristatus) on Sunderland Moor. — In the 

 second week of January a male specimen of the crested tit was shot on Sunderland 

 Moor, and is now in the possession of Mr. Calvert, of that place. — Joseph Duffy- 

 Bishop Auckland, March 11, 1850. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing (Bombycilla garrula) in England. — In the begin- 

 ning of November, 1849, a fine specimen of the waxwing was killed at Stone Chester, 

 near this place: subsequently to this as many as nineteen of these birds have been got 

 in the southern division of this county, the dates of all I cannot give ; one was got near 

 Darlington, and two near Crook in the last week of December; two at Brancepeth, 

 and one at Byers Crein in the second week in January ; one at Shildou ; one near Wal- 

 singham, and two at Bishop Auckland about the 22nd of January ; one on Thursday, 

 the 31st, and one on Friday, February 1st, by Mr. Gornal, of this town, who has seen 

 five that he did not get ; I have not heard of more than two having been seen together, 

 except once four by Mr. Gornal. I also understand there have been seven got in the 

 neighbourhood of Stockton, two by Mr. T. Green, five by a person of the name 

 of Hunter, who had received thein to stuff, and one near Stanley, a few miles to the 

 north-west, on the 6th of February. In the third week of February two more speci- 

 mens were shot at Spring Gardens, near Bishop Auckland, and a third was seen, 

 but not killed, on the 2nd of March.— Id. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing near Wisbeach. — A flock of about twenty of 

 these rare and beautiful birds was observed in the immediate vicinity of Wis- 

 beach, at the commencement of January, but from inquiries which I have since 

 made, I cannot learn that any specimen was shot until the 10th, and that was an 

 adult male at Upwell, seven miles from this town. Afterwards eight others were shot, 

 viz., one (a male) in Holbeach Marsh, on the 12th ; three at Lynn (one male and two 

 females), on the 13th: one at Terrington, on the 18th; one (a male) at Whittlesea, on 

 the 19th, and two near Manea (females), on the 23rd. Seven of the above were sent 



