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Ornithological Notes from Lewes. — A Chiffchaff spent March 9th 

 in the hedges near this rectory ; it then disappeared, and I saw no 

 other till March 23rd. Every winter for the last five years a pair of 

 Grey Wagtails have taken up their quarters along a tiny ditch near 

 the rectory ; this year I saw them last on March 14th. The vast 

 flocks of Starlings which have roosted in our woods broke up this nest. 

 I noticed that the resident Starlings roosted about the farms, &c, as 

 usual, and never seemed to mix with the aliens. On May 2nd, 1901, 

 at the edge of Blunts Wood, in this parish, I watch from a very 

 short distance a bird which at the time I thought, from the description 

 in Saunders's ' Manual,' to be a Woodchat Shrike. I have recently 

 seen the specimens of that bird in the Museums at South Kensington 

 and Brighton (Booth), and am now absolutely convinced that I was 

 right. I took a careful note of this at the time, and spent most of 

 the morning watching it. The ordinary Bed-backed Shrike is quite 

 common here. — Clifford Toogood (Barcombe, Lewes, Sussex). 



Some Notes on Birds of Donegal. — In 1905, Mr. Theed Pearse and 

 myself spent the latter end of May and first few days in June visiting 

 the locality around Narain. In ' The Zoologist,' 1892 (pp. 128-131), 

 I made some notes on the birds observed in this district, and it will 

 not be uninteresting to compare and add to such after a lapse of four- 

 teen years. 



Whinchat. — Carefully sought for in a former nesting haunt, but 

 found absent. 



Goldfinch. — Apparently not nearly so plentiful. 



Raven. — A pair have nested for several years after an absence of 

 many previous years. This year the young flew from a nest in Scoult- 

 aling, near Dunmore Head. 



Hooded Crow. — Nested previously, but not met with in its former 

 haunts. 



Jackdaw. — Numbers nesting on the headlands. 



Water-Ball. — Two seen on the Sheskinmore, probably birds of 

 different pairs. One evidently had young, as it became very excited at 

 my approach, and refused to leave the vicinity of a small patch of 

 rushes. 



Lapwing. — A pair nesting on Boaninish Islands. 



Dunlin. — Some half-dozen or more pairs nesting on the Sheskin- 

 more, and several were heard uttering their love-call on Boaninish. 



Bedshank. — One pair and their eggs found on the Sheskinmore. 



Purple Sandpiper. — One picked up dead on Inishbarnog, and 

 another seen at Boaninish, May 25th. 

 Zool. 4th ser. vol. X., April, 1906. N 



