I AM indebted to the Rev. L. G. M. Sheldon, of Crowborough, Sussex, who is an experienced ornithologist and at whose vicarage these notes were made, for providing me with the following facts. In mid-April of this year, 1947, a cock Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba yarrdlii) arrived, and was often heard singing from the roof of the adjacent church and seen in the vicarage garden; but there was never a...

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