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passed into the country. So far as I could judge Kooks were by 
far the commoner, and in only two parties I distinctly made out 
Hooded Crows. On this day I noticed one large Hock of perhaps 
a hundred ChafBnches arrive. On the 17th I saw a lai^e flock of 
some two hundred starlings, a few Kooks, and some Titlarks. On 
the 20th one flock of Crows, but I could not say with certainty to 
what species they belonged. On the 21st and 22nd I saw small 
flocks of Kooks arrive. I cannot say whether this migration 
had been going on previously, as I arrived only on the evening 
of the loth. I have been at Lowestoft the la.st three autumns, but 
I have never before observed so many (Jrows migrating. Kooks 
1 believe were far the most numerous of all the Crows which 
arrived. — Edward Newton. 
Hyurid Wagtails (c/. ‘Zoologist,’ 1885, j). 24). I have the 
pleasure to bring for exhibition this evening a hybrid AVagtail 
bred in confinement. From the difliculty of keeping Wagtails as 
cage-birds they are seldom to be seen in the aviaries of any 
but the most enthusiastic, and a Wagtail of any kind bred in 
confinement is almost unknown. The bird on the table was 
hatched and reared in ^Ir. T. J. ^Monk’s large out-door aviary in 
Sussex, and is the produce of the hybrid progeny of two species, — 
the Pied ^^hlgtail (Motacilla luijubrii<), and the Grey ^^'agtail 
(J/. mehinope). The first cross was between a cock Grey Wagtail 
and a hen Pied Wagtail, and the second cross between the male 
hybrid and a hen Pied Wagtail : two of the second cross were 
preserved, of which this is one. It might be passed over at first 
sight for an ordinary young Pied ^Vagtail, but the back is darker, 
and if put beside the Pied Wagtail skins, brought for comparison, 
it will at once be observed that the hybrid has no white at all on 
the wing-coverts. 
Tliat what has happened in confinement should occasionally happen 
in a state of nature is not very wonderful, and !Mr. F. Bond has a 
Wagtail shot at Brighton which from the mixed colour of the crown 
of its head looks like a cross between the yellow species (J/. raii) 
and the grey-headed [M. fiava). I shot some similar Wagtails 
in North Africa, similar at least in respect of the mixed colour 
on the crown, which are very likely hybrids. Lord Walsingham 
recently sent to the British [Museum a male Wagtail (in the flesh), 
