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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



Badger near Cheltenham. — A fairly large specimen of a Badger was 

 recently killed at Brimpsfield, near here, in a wooded " combe" at an 

 elevation of about nine hundred feet above the sea-level. These 

 animals are stated to be not uncommon in the neighbourhood. — 

 Champion le Chamberlain (Fairhaven, Cheltenham). 



AVES. 



Occurrence of the Sardinian Warbler in Sussex. — On June 4th a 

 Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) was brought to me in the 

 flesh for identification by Mr. Gr. Bristow, Jun., naturalist, of Silchester 

 Eoad, St. Leonards-on-Sea. It had been killed the day before in the 

 neighbourhood of Hastings, and proved on dissection to be a male. 

 Being unable to be present at the British Ornithologists' Club Dinner 

 in London on June 19th, the bird was kindly exhibited on my behalf 

 by Dr. C. B. Ticehurst, M.B.O.U., who informs me that this is the first 

 really authenticated occurrence of this species in the British Islands, 

 though Mr. W. D'Urban saw what was apparently a bird of the same 

 species in his garden at Exmouth on April 16th, 1890. This is referred 

 to in Mr. Howard Saunders's ' Manual,' where he writes : — " There is 

 not the least improbability of this bird occurring in the British Islands, 

 since it is common in the South of France and in the Peninsula." It 

 probably got swept north in the tide of spring migration. I hope to 

 record this occurrence of the Sardinian Warbler also in part iii. of 

 vol. i. of the Journal (' Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist ') of the 

 Hastings and St. Leonards Natural History Society. — Thomas Parkin 

 (Fair seat, High Wickham, Hastings). 



The Scaup-Duck (Fuligula marila) in Cheshire. — On the 12th May 

 last I saw an adult male of this Sea-Duck on Redesmere, Cheshire. It 

 proved to be very tame, and I was able to approach to within some 

 twenty yards of it. The head, neck, and breast were black, glossed 

 with green ; mantle finely vermiculated with pale grey and white, 

 which in the distance looked white, and was met with the white of the 



