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which Mr. Adams’s note applies, but the two species are not gene- 
rally distinguished, and the name Peludo is applied to both. And 
if Mr. Adams asked the Gaucho at the tuco-tuconale to catch him 
a Peltido, this would account for his getting an Armadillo. It is 
to some extent an omnivorous and carrion-feeder. I have never met 
with the name “Meluta,”’ and do not know what it would mean. 
There is, I believe, no Spanish word like it. The little ‘Mulita” 
(Tatusia septemcincta), or ‘little mule,” so called from its ears, is the 
small Armadillo which is eaten in the camp, and occasionally used to 
figure on the menu at the hotels in Montevideo. I had one alive, and 
found it exceedingly quiet and gentle in its manners. I do not think 
anyone I ever talked to about it, and who knew its reputation as a 
earrion-feeder, would think of eating the SLO. —O. V. APLIN 
(Bloxham, a) 
AVES. 
Sylvia nisoria in Norfolk.—On Sept. 11th, Mr. H. A. V. Wageeed 
who was shooting with me at Cley, in Norfolk, secured an immature 
Barred Warbler. It was the only bird in the bushes, where it 
_ appeared about twelve o’clock, after a wet morning with north-west 
wind. It was a very conspicuous bird owing to its size and light 
colour. It showed no inclination to skulk, and its flight was buoyant. 
Tam almost sure that we saw a Pectoral Sandpiper several times be- 
tween the lst andthe 17th. I could always separate it at a glance 
from a flock of Dunlin, and I watched it once through glasses at about 
twenty yards.—H. C. Arnoxup (Eastbourne College). 
Nesting of the Wryneck (Iynx torquilla).— 
June 3rd.—First egg laid in nesting-box in my garden. 
4th.—7 p.m. Two eggs. 
dth.—8.30 p.m. Wryneck inside box, svaslemely intending to pleep 
therein, and not afterwards disturbed. 
6th.—7 a.m. Four eggs in nest; bird not inside, and eggs cold. 
1ith.—A clutch of nine eggs now laid. Unfortunately I had 
been absent from home since the previous note, so I was unable to 
record on what day incubation actually commenced. 
21st.—6.30 p.m. Four young and five eggs, one of which is 
addled. 
22nd.—7 a.m. Five young; 7 p.m., six young. 
23rd.—7 a.m. Six young; 7 p.m., seven young. 
24th.—7 a.m. Seven young, one of which being dead is, with the 
addled egg, removed; 7 p.m., the remaining egg hatched. Incuba- 
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