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The White Owl's nest, which contained eggs in May, was 

 again utilized for a second brood in July (sis eggs), and later in 

 the month a Nightjar's nest with two eggs was found while 

 cutting bracken near Wootton, Staffordshire. At Osmaston 

 Manor the Great Crested Grebes successfully brought off a brood 

 of four young. 



On the whole the weather of the summer and autumn of 1905 

 was extraordinarily fine and dry. From many parts of England 

 reports of the exceptionally late stay of both Swifts and Hirundinidce 

 were received. Most of our local Swifts had disappeared by the 

 middle of August, but on the 24th Mr. A. Evans saw one go into 

 a nesting-hole at Kocester ; and on Sept. 3rd I saw one hawking 

 about, together with a number of Martins and Swallows, near 

 Bradbourne Mill. 



The House-Martins, as usual, were still feeding their young 

 long after the young Swallows and Sand-Martins had left the 

 nest. Mr. G. Pullen noticed a single Swallow at Darley on 

 Nov. 6th, and several were seen at Repton about the same time. 

 The most remarkable note on the subject reaches us from Burton, 

 where Mr. H. G. Tomlinson reports that a single House-Martin 

 flew out of an old nest which was being knocked down on 

 Nov. 25th ! 



A new species was added to our county fauna on Sept. 30th, 

 when Mr. Herbert Tomlinson shot a fine Curlew- Sandpiper 

 (Tringa subarquata) on the sewage-farm near Egginton, from 

 whence so many scarce birds have been recorded. Another 

 bird of the same species was also seen, but not shot. The 

 specimen has been preserved, and is in Mr. Tomlinson's posses- 

 sion ; it is apparently a bird of the year. The number of species 

 definitely recorded for Derbyshire, excluding those which are 

 believed to have been artificially introduced, now stands at two 

 hundred and thirty-five. Another interesting visitor, which was 

 shot on the same day and at the same place as the Curlew- 

 Sandpiper, was the Little Stint {Tringa minuta). Only one of 

 the two previous records can be regarded as satisfactory, so that 

 this is the second definite record of the species for the county.* 

 On Nov. 4th an enormous white bird was seen flying over the 

 Derwent Valley, near Little Eaton. It was apparently attracted 



v A Green Sandpiper (Totamis ochropus) was killed by Mr. R. G. Tom- 

 linson on the sewage-farm early in September. 



