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country, no doubt, where it is scarce — Northumberland is one of 

 thern— but in ordinary country in most parts of England it seems to 

 be common enough. It certainly is so, for example, in the plain of 

 York and in Cheshire. In Sussex (last summer, at any rate)' it was 

 one of the commonest of the Warblers, and the "common" White- 

 throat was singularly scarce. I do not think I should be wrong in 

 stating that I heard twenty Lesser Whitethroats in Sussex for one 

 common Whitethroat. — B. Leonaed Gill (Newcastle-on-Tyne). 



Glossy Ibis in Norfolk. — The Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) 

 has again been found in Norfolk, one having been shot on Oct. 28th, 

 1913, at Acle, nine miles west of Yarmouth. Mr. Lowne, our local 

 taxidermist, on dissecting this bird, found it to be a male. The visits 

 of this species to Norfolk generally occur during the autumn months. 

 The following notes relating to the past eleven years may be of 

 interest : — Nov. 28th, 1902, one shot on the river Bure. August 

 22nd, 1903, one shot at Halvergate, Sept. 3rd, 1906, four seen 

 flying over Breydon ; these escaped. Dec. 2nd, 1909, one shot on 

 the marshes between the river Bure and Breydon. Nov. 2nd, 1912, 

 one shot at Fleggburgh, and another shot on the Burgh Marshes on 

 Dee. 2nd in the same year. All these localities are within about ten 

 miles of Yarmouth. — B. Dye (Great Yarmouth). 



Ornithological Notes from Yorkshire. — Bed-backed Shrike as a 

 Breeding Species. — In the sixties a friend of mine showed me a pair 

 of the above species which had nested, so he alleged, on Silsden 

 Moor — which, however, is not a moor in the ordinary acceptation of 

 the term, but embraced some rough ground in an elevated part two 

 or three miles north of Keighley — the authenticity of which I never 

 doubted. I communicated the facts to Mr. Nelson, who considered 

 the evidence not satisfactory, but on what ground it is not stated 

 (see ' Birds of Yorkshire,' vol. i. p. 142). We have it, however, on the 

 authority of S. L. Mosley that the Bed-backed Shrike has nested near 

 Keighley, and Mr. Walter Greaves, in his ' List of the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of the Hebden Bridge District,' reports the nesting of this 

 species, on the authority of J. Cunningham, at Dudwells in 1885 

 ('Birds of Norland Clough'). The Bed-backed Shrike is a rare 

 nesting species in Yorkshire. One (in addition to the above case) of 

 the most recent cases is reported by W. Guygell in 1889 on Oliver's 

 Mount, Scarborough. 



On Nov. 29th, 1913, a Swallow was seen flying over the river 

 Calder between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd, near Halifax. In 

 the seventies I saw one flying about near Bingley for a few days, but 



