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NOTES AND QUEKIE S. 



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Birds Travelling North in Autumn. — Eeferring to Mr. Gurney's 

 notes on this subject (Zool., 1914, p. 449), I might state that 

 on October 2nd I witnessed a northward movement of Mistle- 

 Thrushes in fair numbers ; a few flocks of Linnets were also going 

 in the same direction. I was away from the coast for several 

 days after October 2nd, consequently I have no notes for the 

 7th, when Mr. Gurney observed the northward movement. It has 

 been my practice for several years to watch the seasonal migra- 

 tions at Low T estoft, and I have often been puzzled at the cross- 

 movements, both in spring and autumn, more especially during 

 the earlier part of the seasons. It is quite usual to see Linnets, 

 Pipits, Tree- Sparrows, &c, going south in early spring, and the 

 same going north in autumn. I have occasionally seen Books, 

 Jackdaws, and Hooded Crows arrive from over the sea in autumn, 

 and fly north on reaching land, and have wondered whether the 

 movements of Finches may have been of a similar character, the 

 birds having arrived on our shores further south. — F. C. Cook 

 (Lowestoft). 



Nesting of Troglodytes parvulus. — Eeferring to Mr. B. P. Butter- 

 field's note (' Zoologist,' 1914, p. 432) on the nesting of the Wren 

 (Troglodytes parvulus), he may be interested to know that I recorded 

 several similar instances in the ' Zoologist,' 1910, p. 158. In June, 

 1913, another case occurred in my garden, where a Wren built a nest 

 inside a box roughly formed of cork bark, intended for Tits, placed 

 against the bole of a tree. Here, again, very little nesting material 

 was visible outside except round the orifice, which was reduced in 

 size. The top of the box in this case was lined with moss inside, as 

 elsewhere, forming a dome but of course not showing outside. This 

 summer a pair built a nest of the normal type, worked into the side 

 of a Thrushes' nest, somewhat high up in an apple-tree, and both 

 were occupied at the same time. — S. G. Cummings (9, King Street, 

 Chester). 



