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Round the nest were the bones of between forty and fifty Grouse, and also 

 lots of bones, chiefly lambs, rabbits, and hares. — Randolfh MacRadish 

 (Edinburgh). 



Icterine Warbler nesting at Heligoland. — In connection with the 

 recent occurrence of this species at Easington, in Holderness (p. 308), it 

 is worth putting on record that a pair have this summer again nested in 

 Heligoland. Under date of July 21st, 1891, Mr. Gatke writes :— " Fancy 

 a pair of the Icterine Warbler, Sylvia hypolais, have been breeding this 

 year in the garden next mine, — in my book a similar occurrence is noted, — 

 the male having been singing from morning to night, in mine and neigh- 

 bour's garden, during the last four weeks. Having now, as I suppose, 

 young, the song is changed for quite a different kind, with which it 

 anxiously follows all the garden round." — John Cordeaux (Great Cotes, 

 Ulceby). 



Lesser Whitethroat in Somersetshire. — I was somewhat surprised 

 to learn from the Rev. Murray A. Mathew's note (p. 273) that the Lesser 

 Whitethroat is considered such a rare bird in Somersetshire. Owing to 

 my residence in Scotland for the last three or four years, I have had no 

 opportunities of late of visiting the county during the breeding season ; but 

 whilst on a visit there in the autumn of 1888 a friend brought me a nest 

 and five eggs of the Lesser Whitethroat, which he had taken near Yeovil 

 in May of that year. The same year I found an empty nest myself near 

 Glastonbury in such an excellent state ot preservation that I kept it until 

 leaving Scotland, a few months ago. This year I ran down from London 

 for Whit Sunday and Monday, and again found a nest of the Lesser White- 

 throat a few miles from Yeovil. The nest and eggs had unfortunately been 

 overturned by some marauder, but I picked up three sound eggs from the 

 ditch below, and found two others there broken. I have never particularly 

 looked for the nest of this bird, but have no doubt a careful search would 

 reveal the fact that it is commoner than appears to be generally believed. 

 The nesting site is quite different from that of the Common Whitethroat, 

 being higher from the ground and much less carefully concealed. Both 

 nests which I found in Somersetshire were in a few thin dead brambles 

 hanging from a high hedge. They were about four feet from the ground, 

 and without any attempt at concealment. — Robert H. Read (9, Grosvenor 

 Gardens, Ealing). 



[The Common Whitethroat occasionally nests at some height from the 

 ground. A nest twelve feet from the ground was found by Mr. C. B. 

 Wharton. See « Zoologist,' 1875, p. 4298.— Ed.] 



Dimensions and Weight of Glaucous Gull.— A male specimen of 

 Larus glaucua was shot on the beach at Dovercourt on the 28th November | 

 last. Appended are its dimensions and weight: — Weight, 3 tt>. 11£ oz. ; 



