i SUPPLEMENT TO 
Lesser Grey Shrike (p. 49). 
A bird, probably of this species, was seen by Mr. Frederick C. Shaw 
near Budleigh Salterton, July 22nd, 1894. It was catching and devour- 
ing the humble-bees that flew past its perch on a burnt stump of gorse. 
We have been obliged to displace the one that we received from Great 
Yarmouth from the position we had assigned to it of being the only 
existing British-killed adult male, as we have lately detected in the 
Collection at Heron Court one that had been shot there many years 
before by the late Earl of Malmesbury. . (M. A. M.) 
Woodchat (p. 50). 
Mr. E. A. 8. Elliot shot a young female near Bantham, at the mouth of 
the River Avon, on September 2nd, 1892 (Zool. 1892, p. 412). 
Swallow (p. 57, line 8 from bottom, ef seq.). 
Mr. E. A. S. Elliot states that the old males have “warm buff” or 
light chestnut underparts on their first arrival on our shores; he sees 
some every year. 
Hawfinch (p. 63). 
The Hawfinch appears to be gradually extending itself as a resident 
bird in the direction of the S.W. counties. It breeds numerously now in 
KE. Somerset, especially in gardens around Bath and Frome. 
Lesser Redpoll (p. 67). 
There is reason to believe that this species breeds in the south of the 
county occasionally. Mr. E. A. 8, Elliot has observed a solitary bird fre- 
quenting a particular spot in spring. In March, 1895, Mr. W. V. Toll 
saw a flock of Redpolls feeding on alder and birch trees at Glazebrook, 
near South Brent. 
Pine-Grosbeak (p. 70). 
Mr. E. A.S. Elliot has compared the specimen in Mrs. Week’s posses- 
sion (No. 18 of Mr. J. H. Gurney’s list) with examples from Canada, and 
has no doubt that it belongs to the American form of the bird. The 
question now arises whether this specimen was mounted from an American- 
killed bird, or whether it actually occurred in Devon as reported. In the 
latter case it may have reached this county in the same manner as so 
many other American birds. 
