432 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



A VES. 



Nesting of Troglodytes parvulus. — On my return home after a 

 short holiday, last June, one of my sons informed me that he had 

 seen the nest of a Wren in a curious place, viz. in a hole in the wall 

 of my poultry run. On going to the place I had a very difficult 

 task to find the nest, even when my son placed me within a few 

 feet of it. I have not infrequently found the nest of the Wren 

 built in walls in a dilapidated condition, where a stone has been 

 missing, thus exposing a large portion of the nest ; but the entrance 

 to this one was by a very small orifice, and the nest being dome- 

 less, its detection by those who passed and repassed was reduced 

 to a minimum I had found a cock nest in early spring near this 

 nest, but this one was used only as a dormitory, and was not 

 subsequently utilized for the incubation and rearing of young or 

 temporary sleeping quarters for fledged young, as is sometimes done 

 on rare occasions. — E. P. Butterfield (Wilsden, Yorks). 



The Grey Wagtail (Motacilla melanope) in Sussex. — Last year 

 (' Zoologist,' 1913, p. 311) I expressed the opinion that the Grey 

 Wagtail had nested in this district, and I am now pleased to record 

 an increase in the number of birds frequenting this neighbourhood 

 during the spring and summer of the present year. I have met 

 with the bird at four different places during the nesting season, at 

 two of which they were accompanied by young. I first saw young 

 birds abroad during the first week in June, when they appeared to be 

 fully grown ; but on the 25th of that month I met with a female 

 with two young which could not long have left the nest, judging by 

 their short tails. — Robert Morris (Uckfield, Sussex). 



Ampelis garrulus in Yorkshire. — A party of Waxwings visited 

 this neighbourhood last year. It is over forty years since the last irrup- 

 tion occurred in this district, a few specimens of which fell into the 

 hands of our local birdstuffers. A friend wrote me last spring from the 

 neighbourhood of Halifax, stating that he had seen for the first time 



