. British birds. Birds. OTES. PROBABLE NESTING OF LESSER REDPOLL IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. On July 19th, 1916, I noticed a pair of Lesser Redpolls {Carduelis Unaria cabaret) repeatedly alighting on a tree growing in some public gardens at Newport, Monmouthshire. I observed the birds about the same spot on several subsequent occasions, and their actions left, little doubt in my mind that they were carrying food to young probably still in the nest. This, however, I could not see from the ground beneath the tree, which I was unable to climb. Howard Bentham LESSER REDPOLL BREEDING IN HERTFORDSHI RE. Two n
. British birds. Birds. OTES. PROBABLE NESTING OF LESSER REDPOLL IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. On July 19th, 1916, I noticed a pair of Lesser Redpolls {Carduelis Unaria cabaret) repeatedly alighting on a tree growing in some public gardens at Newport, Monmouthshire. I observed the birds about the same spot on several subsequent occasions, and their actions left, little doubt in my mind that they were carrying food to young probably still in the nest. This, however, I could not see from the ground beneath the tree, which I was unable to climb. Howard Bentham LESSER REDPOLL BREEDING IN HERTFORDSHI RE. Two nests of the Lesser Redpoll {Carduelis I. cabaret) were foimd this year in the same garden at Letchworth, one in Jime in a hawthorn hedge, and the other in Avxgust in a Dorothy Perkins rose. The nests and birds were both seen by me and the young flew in each case. This is, I believe, the first authentic record for north Hertfordshire. W. P. Westell. [In the Victoria History of Hertfordshire, Mr. Grossman states (I., p. 202) that the Lesser Redpoll's nest has been foimd at Newsells Park (Barkway), which is in the north of the county.—Eds.] CROSSBILLS IN CO. ANTRIM. On July 27th, 1916, I watched some Crossbills {Loxia cur- virostra) on a Scotch fir near Fernhill, Belfast. During their short stay they seemed to haunt the same trees most of the time, and when they left for good went in a north-easterly direction. Although I saw three different flocks they all appeared to come from the same place and to go away in the same direction, and even to alight on the same trees although there are plenty of firs here. They did not leave for anj^ lack of food as there were many trees that they had not touched. J. Cunningham. TITS IN NESTING-BOXES ATTACKED BY WEASEL AND EVICTED BY WRYNECKS. On July 3rd, 1916, I found a weasel in a nesting-box con- taining a Great Tit's nest with young. I killed the weasel. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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