. British birds. Birds. OTES. FIRECREST IN BEDFORDSHIRE. When watching for birds on April 1st, 1916, from an observation hut which I have had built for that purpose at Woburn, my attention was attracted by a bird with a very white eyestripe in a bush some twenty yards away. I had only a momentary glimpse and was much puzzled to know what it could be at this time of year. I did not see it again for an hour, when it reappeared within two and a half yards of my window and I identified it at once as a Firecrest {Regulus ignicapiUus). The orange crest was raised as if displaying to a female on 'the
. British birds. Birds. OTES. FIRECREST IN BEDFORDSHIRE. When watching for birds on April 1st, 1916, from an observation hut which I have had built for that purpose at Woburn, my attention was attracted by a bird with a very white eyestripe in a bush some twenty yards away. I had only a momentary glimpse and was much puzzled to know what it could be at this time of year. I did not see it again for an hour, when it reappeared within two and a half yards of my window and I identified it at once as a Firecrest {Regulus ignicapiUus). The orange crest was raised as if displaying to a female on 'the same bush, about a foot below him, but unless she is very much more like the Goldcrest than he is, she did not belong to the same species. There can be no question of confusing this bird with the Goldcrest, once one has seen the conspicuously broad eye- stripe, but the black lines above and below the white were also noticed. The bird seemed slightly larger than the Goldcrest, of which there were manj^ about, but this may have been because he was ruffling up his feathers for the benefit of the little lady below him. M. Bedford. CHIFFCHAFFS IN IRELAND IN FEBRUARY. A CHiFFCHAFF {Phylloscopus collyhita) was reported to me by Mrs. Hoffe, who heard it at Arklow (Wicklow) on February 12th, 1916, and by Miss Macartney-Filgate, who heard it at Lowtherstone, Balbriggan (Dublin) on February 15th and 16th. Both are competent observers. Charles W. Ben .son. ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD IN HERTFORDSHIRE. An adult female Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo I. lagopus) was shot by a farmer near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, on March 3rd, 1916. It was sent to me in the flesh and will shortly be added to the bird collection in the Letchworth Museum. W. Percival Westell. WHITE-TAILED EAGLE AND ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARDS IN LINCOLNSHIRE. An immature example of the White-tailed Eagle {Haliaetus alhicilla) was trapped on February 9th, 1916, by a keeper on Manton Warren, not far from the Scawby gull-ponds. The bird had been s
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