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Breeding of the Goldeneye in the Washburn Valley.— A pair of 

 Goldeneyes, Clangula glaucion t bred last summer in a plantation on the 

 margin of Fewston Reservoir, near Otley, Yorkshire. The young ones, 

 four in number, were seen repeatedly in the vicinity of the nesting-place. 

 After careful investigation, I detected the female was a wounded bird, 

 unable to fly. This in all probability is the cause of their breeding here. 

 A pair of Goldeneyes bred under similar circumstances during the summer 

 of 1891, in a plantation on the margin of Swinsty Reservoir. One of the 

 young ones was caught by my spaniel dog. The old male bird was shot, 

 and is now in the collection of the Leeds Naturalist Club. The Goldeneye 

 is a regular winter visitant here in limited numbers. The area of the two 

 Reservoirs is 356 acres.— Wm. Storey (Fewston Lodge, Fewston, near 

 Otley). 



Broad-billed Sandpiper in Sussex.— On Oct. 2nd a female Broad-billed 

 Sandpiper, Limicola platyrhyncha, was shot near Rye Harbour, Sussex, 

 out of a small flock of Dunlins, Tringa alpina. It was a female bird of 

 the year, and is now in the collection of Mr. Alexander, of Cranbrook. 

 It is, I believe, the third specimen which has been obtained in Sussex. 

 Mr. Burton shot one in the same neighbourhood on Aug. 13th, 1887, which 

 is now in Lord Lilford's collection. Previous to this, namely, in October, 

 1845, Mr. Borrer purchased one in the tlesh which had just been shot near 

 Shoreham (' Birds of Sussex,' p. 227). — G. W. Bradshaw (Hastings). 



Red-necked Phalarope near St. Leonards. — Mr. Knight, of St. 

 Leonards, shot a male Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus, 

 on Oct. 17th, at a small pool of water on the Salts, Bulverhythe, near 

 St. Leonards. It weighed 1 oz. ; contents of gizzard, flies. Mr. Borrer, 

 in his 'Birds of Sussex' (p. 218), notices five previous occurrences of this 

 bird in the county. — G. W. Bradshaw (Hastings). 



Swallows returning to their Old Nests. — On June 6th, 1893, 

 I caught with a fishing-net a pair of House Martins, H. urbica, which had 

 built their nest under the eaves of our house. I put a small split-ring on 

 the leg of each bird. The following year, June 20th, the birds returned 

 with the rings still on their legs. A pair of Martins again nested here 

 during the present summer in the same place; but unfortunately the male 

 bird was killed by flying against a telephone-wire, When picked up it 

 still had my ring on its leg. I was unable to prove the female to be also a 

 marked bird, for she deserted the nest soon after the male bird was killed. — 

 Wm. Storey (Fewston Lodge, Fewston, near Otley). 



[This is not the first time that the experiment has been made of 

 marking birds with a view to ascertain whether they return to spots where 

 they have previously reared their young, and in the case of both Swallows 

 and Swifts it has been proved that they do. For reported cases of the 



