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3. The iinic of arrival, the second week in May, suits the Garden- 

 Warbler better than any other bird which it is hkely to have been. 



4. Its use of its " territory " was quite in the manner of the 

 Garden- Warbler as described by Mr. Howard. It wandered about the 

 trees in an area of some two acres in extent, and specially affected 

 one particular tree, an oak overhanging a small pond. 



5. Its favourite food seemed to be green caterpillars — a charac- 

 teristic preference, I believe, of the Garden-Warbler. 



Thus I am now pretty well convinced as to its identity. But in any 

 case, there is a very interesting feature in the story. For three suc- 

 cessive years an individual bird returned to the same wood, taking 

 possession of the same territory, and holding it during the season. 

 This is made absolutely certain by the abnormal and unique song. 

 And during those three seasons a number of good nest-finders utterly 

 failed to discover a nest, which shows how pathetically persistent 

 were the efforts of this unlucky bachelor to secure a mate who never 

 came. — W. Warde Fowlee. 



Rough-legged Buzzards in Suffolk and Norfolk. — The two Eough- 

 legged Buzzards, of which Mr. Eope had so favourable a view (' Zool.,' 

 1915, p. 466), would seem to have been one contingent of a migra- 

 tion of this autumn visitant, as two were also shot in the north of 

 Suffolk on November 4th and 20th, 1915. These were forwarded to 

 Mr. Saunders and Mr. Gunn, from whom I heard of them, as well 

 as of others, in Norfolk. The first to come to Norfolk were two seen 

 by Mr. J. Vincent, passing over a large Broad as early as September 

 27th. Being carefully protected, they continued to frequent the 

 same neighbourhood until December, and up to the 16th of that 

 month had been seen by him practically every day. During October 

 and November, Buzzards, which are believed to have been all of the 

 Eough-legged species, were seen or shot in various parishes as far 

 apart as Breydon, Ormesby, RoUesby, Filby, Hey don, Han worth, 

 Northrepps, Hempstead, Long-Stratton, Snettisham, and Mundford, 

 and one near Norwich. Possibly, however, some were counted twice 

 over. — J. H. Gueney (Keswick Hall, Norwich). 



Hornbill's Procedure in Bathing. — I recently watched an African 

 Hornbill {Geratogijmna atratd) bathing at the Zoo in one of the small 

 basins (about a yard across) in the Eastern Aviary. The bird repeatedly 

 flew across this, dragging its tail and belly through the water, and, 

 on landing, flapped several feet along the ground like a wounded bird. 

 After a dozen or more repetitions of this, its plumage was so draggled 

 that it had to scramble up the wires to get on a perch. Wliat I 



