346 Ornithological Notes. By George Bolam. 



of the white tips of the tail feathers. In this, as in other respects, the 

 flight of the Shrike has a strong resemblance to that of the Magpie. 



The same bird or another had been seen on the adjoining farm of 

 Downham a week before, and about the same time one was killed at 

 Haggerstone Castle, and another identified in the neighbourhood of 

 Berwick, while the remains of yet another bird were picked up by one of 

 the keepers in Alnwick Park, and the skull with the bill preserved for 

 identification. 



On March 22nd my brother and I saw one at Murton near Berwick, but 

 it was very wild, and on being disturbed, mounted to a considerable height 

 in the air and flew right away ; and on April 9th a very fine female 

 specimen, which had been picked up dead upon the railway near Berwick, 

 was brought to me, and now forms part of my collection. 



In November 1889 one was killed at Cumledge by Mr Thos. Thomson. 

 Three were obtained upon the coast near Blyth, and a fourth seen, the 

 latter on the 29th ; and I examined a young bird, with the under parts of 

 the plumage much freckled, which had been sent to Berwick from the 

 neighbourhood of Hawick, near which place it had been killed. On 1st 

 December one was seen by the Rev. Chas. B. Carr, flying along the road- 

 side between Morpeth and Kirkley ; on the morning of the 3rd my brother 

 saw one surrounded by a clamorous party of sparrows in a garden close to 

 the Pier at Berwick ; and on 2nd January following, a male in rather dull 

 plumage, and with only very faint traces of any barring upon the under 

 parts, was brought to me by a Berwick person, who had shot it near the 

 town on the previous afternoon. During this month I had also oppor- 

 tunities of examining other specimens killed at Barmoor, at Spittal, and 

 near Berwick ; and so late as about Easter 1890 one was reported to be 

 still tarrying in the Park at Alnwick. 



During November 1891 one was shot by the keeper at Haggerstone ; and 

 early in the present year another — a male — was killed near Fowberry 

 Tower, " while in the act of devouring a small bird which it had spiked in 

 a hedge." I examined both these birds shortly after they were killed, and 

 both were in the immature or mottled plumage. On 29th or 30th January 

 1892, one was seen sitting upon a low tree in Berwick, " making a peculiar 

 noise and surrounded by a lot of sparrows, all chirping, and in a state of 

 great excitement," and several other occurrences might without difficulty 

 be cited. 



Waxwing. Ampelis garrulus, Linnaeus. 

 A beautiful bird, which proved to be an adult female of this species, was 

 picked up dead at Mordington, near Berwick, on or about the 11th 

 December 1891, and sent to Edinburgh for preservation. It is some years 

 now since we have had any visitation of Waxwings to the district. 



Pied Flycatcher. Muscicapa atricapilla, Linnaeus. 



On Sunday morning, 10th May 1891, I picked up a female, recently 

 dead, and in a very emaciated condition, upon the roadside near the Hope 



