. British birds. Birds. OTES. BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL IN HERTFORDSHIRE. In a pasture bordering one of the reservoirs at Tring, on April 29th, 1917, my sister-in-law detected a Wagtail differing in colour from the Ray's Wagtails with which it was con- sorting. As we looked down from the top of the reservoir embajikment on the birds running to ancl fro in the short grass, it was an easy matter to distinguish the stranger by its blue-gre}'^ croMTQ and nape, the conspicuous whitish buff superciliary streak, the less distinct streak of the same colour through the ear-coverts, and the buff wing-bars. Th
. British birds. Birds. OTES. BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL IN HERTFORDSHIRE. In a pasture bordering one of the reservoirs at Tring, on April 29th, 1917, my sister-in-law detected a Wagtail differing in colour from the Ray's Wagtails with which it was con- sorting. As we looked down from the top of the reservoir embajikment on the birds running to ancl fro in the short grass, it was an easy matter to distinguish the stranger by its blue-gre}'^ croMTQ and nape, the conspicuous whitish buff superciliary streak, the less distinct streak of the same colour through the ear-coverts, and the buff wing-bars. The upper- ])arts and ear-coverts were greyish-brown, the breast and belly pale yellowish-buff passing into bright sulphur-j'^ellow on the under tail-coverts. I cannot say positively to which subspecies of MotaciUa fiava the bird, a hen, belonged, but the blue-grey croAvn and the pale ear-coverts point to M. f. flava, the subspecies, apart from M. f. rayi, most likely to occur. Chas. Oldham. PRESENT STATUS OF NUTHATCH IN CARNARVON- SHIRE AND ANGLESEY. On May 5th, 1917, Mr. F. H. Mills of Bangor sent me a specimen of the Nuthatch {8iUa e. britannica), which had been found dead at the foot of a tree in Vaynol Park. The s]iecies appears to be establishing itself along the Menai Straits for it has been recorded on the Anglesey side by myself in 1910, and Mr. R. W. Jones in 1914 ; while on the Carnarvon- shire side it was noted in Penrhyn Park by Mr. C. Oldham in 1912, and at Llandwrog bj^ Mr. S. G. Cummings in 1914. Prior to this the only record Avas a bird seen at Bodwyn, Carnarvon, in 1902. As a whole the evidence seems to indicate that the species has extended its range thus far west- wards only within quite recent j^ears. Around Llandudno it has become firmly established during the last ten years. H. E. Forrest. GREAT GREY SHRIKE IN WILTSHIRE. My friend, Miss Margaret Butterworth, saw a Great Grey Shrike {Lanius excubitor) on April 18th, 1917, about a mile and a half from Lechlad
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