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laying, and if my conclusions are about correct, the eggs would have 

 been laid on May 28th, June 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 12th respectively, 

 and this points to the probability that an egg was actually laid every 

 third day. I did not visit this locality again after June 12th, so I 

 cannot say if any additional eggs of this clutch could have been 

 found. The number of eggs of the foster-parent taken by the Cuckoo 

 from these nests I am unable to state, but from the particulars 

 already given, at least two appear to have been extracted from several 

 of the nests. — J. Steele Elliott. 



Late Stay of Fieldfares in North of Ireland. — I was greatly 

 interested in Mr. Wilson's note in your issue for June, stating that a 

 flock of Fieldfares were seen by him near Aberdeen on May 13th, 

 which were much later than the flock I observed near Lurgan, which 

 were seen on April 28th, although this is, I think, an unusually late 

 date for them to be so far south. — W. H. Workman, M.B.O.U. 

 (Belfast). 



Some Migration and other Notes for June. — We had to wait 

 until June 15th before we saw a Wheatear, when we met with two 

 males at Bridgend, Kildrummy. We have not seen any more of 

 them. On the same date we saw about twenty Long-tailed Tits at 

 Glenlogie. This is the second season I have seen them here. There 

 have undoubtedly been some specimens of the White Wagtail during 

 June here. Saw a Whinchat on moor ridge near Kildrummy policies 

 on June 30th ; it was a male and seemed to have a mate and to be 

 breeding. I have noted two birds on July 1st, which I believe are 

 Bramblings. At Battle Hillock I heard the unusual call of a male 

 here for a female. The former was pretty tame, and flitted about 

 upon a bush of broom, hopping along a branch in search of insects, 

 in a way I never saw Chaffinches do. He next made an appearance 

 upon gooseberry bushes in the garden, picking up caterpillars. What- 

 ever be the cause, there is a great crop of the latter, giving much 

 trouble. Have not as yet heard a Corncrake. Warblers seem rather 

 quiet as regards song. — W. Wilson (Aberdeen). 



Sparrow Robbing Starling. — On Whit- Monday I was watching a 

 pair of Starlings hunting on a very small grass-plot in Eidgmount 

 Street, W.C. ; the cock had got a bill full of what appeared to be 

 worms (which one often sees Starlings get on London lawns) when a 

 Sparrow made a dart and snatched his booty from him. He then 

 started chewing it but would not allow a very close approach, going 

 off into some shrubs ; the Starling went on hunting, without showing 



