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Do Cuckoos suck Eggs ? — I much regret I have no proof whatever to 

 offer Mr. Davenport that the Hawfinch's eggs mentioned in * Zoologist,' 

 p. 426, were sucked by Cuckoos ; neither have I any proof that they were 

 sucked by Jackdaws. But the fact still remains that not only were the eggs 

 sucked in the above-mentioned nest, but the contents of thirty-two other 

 nests of the same species, with those of some scores of other nests I saw, had 

 met with a similar fate. Cuckoos in this locality have been exceptionally 

 plentiful during the past season, and with one exception (on an island 

 in the Outer Hebrides during the spring of 1895), I have never known 

 them to be so numerous. — R. U. Calvert (Langley House, Ascott-sub- 

 Wychwood, Oxford). 



Hypolais polyglotta in Sussex.— As reported by Mr. Howard Saunders 

 in the current issue of ' The Ibis,' the second of the Warblers mentioned 

 by Mr. Ticehurst (supra, p. 333) has turned out, as the latter surmised, to 

 be of this species. The specimen has been examined by Mr. Saunders 

 and others, amongst them by the present writer, and is now in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Boyd Alexander. The species has already been declared to 

 be a member of our avifauna by Mr. Murray A. Mathew (' Birds of Pem- 

 brokeshire,' pp. 9, 10), but in this instance doubt may perhaps be reason- 

 ably entertained of the correct identification of the species. — W. Ruskin 

 Butterfield (St. Leonards-on-Sea). 



Willow Wren singing in Autumn.— On looking over my note-books 

 for 1891-93, in which years I noticed more particularly the dates on which 

 our different birds were singing, I find that the Willow Wren figures 

 therein as a comparatively common autumn singer. Thus in 1891 the 

 dates are June 15th, Aug. 14th-22nd; in 1892, Aug. lst-17th ; in 1893, 

 June 16th, 20th, July 1st, 6th, 25th, Aug. 7th, 9th, 24th, Sept. 8th. 

 These notes refer mainly to Midlothian. — Robert Godfrey (46, Cumber- 

 land Street, Edinburgh). 



Mealy Redpoll off Coast of Kerry. — Between 1889 and 1893 I 

 received seven specimens of the Mealy Redpoll from the Tearaght Rock, 

 a small but precipitous islet out in the Atlantic, nine miles west of Kerry. 

 These Redpolls are very large, and I have always regarded them as Green- 

 land Redpolls, Linota hornemanni, Holb. In this I hope to be confirmed 

 by Mr. Howard Saunders, to whom two stuffed specimens have just been 

 forwarded. Five were obtained in September, one in October, and one in 

 November. — Richard M. Barrington (Fassaroe, Bray, Co. Wicklow). 



Note on Pied and Grey Wagtail in the Itchen Valley. — I wish to 

 correct a statement I made on p. 462 in the October issue of ■ The 

 Zoologist ' with relation to these birds. I there stated that by the end 



