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Wood Warbler. — Mr. Lambert saw one of these local birds 

 at "Parson's Pleasure," on May 2nd, 1889; it was singing; he 

 also observed three at Holton stone pits, near Wheatley, in the 

 same year. I found two males in song and one hen calling in a 

 small oak wood near Great Tew on May 18th, 1890. Mr. Lambert 

 heard one singing in a field adjoining Christ Church Meadow on 

 May 1st, 1890. 



Chiffchaff. — Mr. Lambert saw "a few" Chiffchaffs near 

 Beckley on Oct. 12th, 1890 : warm weather. The Chiffchaff 

 occasionally stays well into October : in 1881 I frequently heard 

 it in that month, and in December, 1887, I examined a stuffed 

 specimen which had been shot near Banbury on Oct. 30th. 



Golden-crested Wren. — Rather numerous in the late 

 autumn of 1889. I noticed some at Bloxham, Wickham, and 

 Broughton on Nov. 1st, 8th, and 10th, and Mr. Wyatt received 

 several for preservation about the end of that month and the 

 beginning of December. 



Nuthatch. — Mr. Lambert informs me that in 1889 a pair 

 began a nest in a hole in a wall, four or five feet from the ground, 

 in the much-frequented road leading past Wadham College. The 

 old elms here, and. the trees in the gardens of St. John's, Trinity, 

 and Wadham Colleges support many Nuthatches. A pair nested 

 in the spring of 1888 and 1889 in a hole in a wall, just under the 

 thatch coping, in a garden at Bloxham. There is a row of filbert- 

 bushes in front of this wall, and the owner tells me they have had 

 no nuts since the Nuthatches took up their abode there, as the 

 birds took them before they were ripe. 



White Wagtail. — A case of the interbreeding of this species 

 with the Pied Wagtail is recorded in * The Zoologist' for 1890, 

 p. 376. 



Grey Wagtail. — A full account of this bird breeding in 

 Oxon will be found in the paper above referred to (Zool. 1890, 

 p. 371). On April 27th of that year, Mr. Lambert* saw three or 

 four birds at Hampton Gay, in a spot admirably suited for a 

 breeding-place — an old, untenanted mill, with rapid water among 

 stones below the sluice-gate. 



Meadow Pipit. — I observed a pair in the rocky railway cutting 

 at Bloxham on May 6th, 1890. This is a very uncommon bird 

 here in the breeding season. 



Sky Lark. — On July 22nd, 1890, 1 saw, on a piece of grazed 



