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numerous in his day on Slapton Ley, as he resided for some years only 
eight miles away, at Kingsbridge, he must certainly have discovered it ; 
but he states that it was then unknown in the 8.W. counties, and had 
not been detected either in Wilts or Somerset. And it appears strange 
that, if the Reed-Warblers were at Slapton, their presence there should 
have been unknown to our old friend Mr. Gatcombe, who was not far off 
at Plymouth, or that those excellent ornithologists, Messrs. H. and R. P. 
Nicholls, of Kingsbridge, should have known nothing about them. Mr. J. 
H. Gurney is the only ornithologist who has, previous to Mr. E. A. 5. 
Elliot (Zool. 1892, p. 408), recorded their occurrence at Slapton Ley, 
where, as we have stated, he met with several in May 1871. Mr. Toll 
tells us that, as long as he can remember, Reed-Warblers have been 
numerous on the Ley, and that he and his brothers, when they were 
boys, used to contend for the discovery of a Reed-Warbler’s nest attached 
to the longest reeds. However, Mr. Toll’s experience would hardly reach 
back to the date of Mr. Gurney’s visit to Slapton, and we believe that 
either that period, or at the most only a year or two earlier, may be 
assigned as the time when the Reed-Warbler first occupied the Ley, from 
which it has since extended itself to the smaller adjacent Leys; it now 
breeds both on Thurlestone and Milton Leys. 
Grasshopper Warbler (p. 23). 
We heard a Grasshopper. Warbler “ reeling” at the edge of Slapton 
Ley on the evening of May 8th, 1895, and on the beautiful night of 
June 24th that same year, while sitting out on our lawn at Buckland 
Dinham, near Frome, we heard four or five ‘“ reeling” one against the 
other; the village lads here occasionally take this Warbler’s nest. 
(M. A. M.) 
Dipper (p. 30). 
[Local names omitted :—Water-Ouzel, Water-Crow, Water-Colley or 
Coly. | 
Marsh-Titmouse (p. 35). 
One summer we watched several Marsh-Tits, together with Coal and 
Blue Tits, all eagerly feeding on the seeds of sunflowers in our garden. 
Nuthatch (p. 36). 
On the inerease in the neighbourhood of Kingsbridge. (EE. A. 8. E.) 
