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Many of oul' migratory birds — and even most of what have hitherto 

 been included as residents are, in fact, migratory — rear more than 

 one brood in a season, and it is well known when the young can shift 

 for themselves they are driven away from their homes by their parents 

 before a second brood is reared ; and under such circumstances the 

 young may wander to a higher latitude, leading a more or less 

 nomadic life until their food supply is affected by adverse weather 

 conditions; thus there may be some ground for Mr. Booth's sugges- 

 tion that this habit may account to some extent for the fact that 

 almost every species that is extending its breeding range does so in 

 a northerly direction. There may be instances where a species has 

 extended its breeding range, the facts of which can scarcely be 

 squared by the above theory, as instance the sudden irruption of the 

 Hawfinch into Yorkshire in the seventies. The nesting habits of 

 these were quite different from those which breed in the South of 

 England, and seem to suggest an oversea immigration. It should 

 also be stated that many young birds of the first brood migrate 

 southward soon after they can shift for themselves. I think I have 

 often seen this movement in August when the food supply has been 

 fairly abundant. Verily, there is still in bird migration more than is 

 dreamt of in our philosophy. — E. P. Buttebfield (Wilsden). 



Symmetrically-marked Variety of the Redbreast ; Individual 

 Attachment in Redbreast. — A day or two ago, crossing a field behind 

 my house, I saw a bird with a red breast with much white in its 

 tail fly into my neighbour's garden and settle in one of his fruit trees, 

 which at first I really thought was a Bed-breasted Flycatcher. I 

 ran to fetch my field-glass, but discovered it to be a well-marked 

 variety of the Bedbreast. The tail-feathers, at least the outer ones, 

 and the primaries were white ; both sides of the bird being very 

 evenly marked, unlike most varieties. 



A neighbour called me the other day to look at a Bedbreast which 

 has come into her house all winter. She was making bread, and 

 although she went about performing her household duties, it evinced 

 no fear whatever, but hopped about, picking up such food as she 

 kept throwing down from time to time. It resented the attentions 

 of the husband, to the great amusement of the good wife of the 

 house and chagrin of the former, who is a passionate lover of Nature, 

 and would have liked to cultivate a closer acquaintance with the 

 bird. — E. P. Buttebfield (Wilsden). 



Fulmar Petrel on Inishtrakull Island, Co. Donegal.— On Tuesday 

 afternoon, September 16th, 1913, a fisherman and native of Inishtra- 

 Zool. 4th ser. vol. XIX., April, 1915. N 



