. British birds. Birds. OTES. THE "PEEWIT" NOTE OF THE GREENFINCH. On June 10th, 1912, my brother called my attention to the note of a bird in our garden at Lynmouth, Devon, like that of a Peewit, which he had heard for some days but could not identify. On the next day I again heard it from the middle of a holly-bush. My brother, however, found in the Rev. C. A. John's British Birds in their Haunts (edition of 1862) the following passage in reference to the Greenfinch {Chloris chloris) : " Another of the notes is a double one and closely resembles that of the Peewit, hence it is
. British birds. Birds. OTES. THE "PEEWIT" NOTE OF THE GREENFINCH. On June 10th, 1912, my brother called my attention to the note of a bird in our garden at Lynmouth, Devon, like that of a Peewit, which he had heard for some days but could not identify. On the next day I again heard it from the middle of a holly-bush. My brother, however, found in the Rev. C. A. John's British Birds in their Haunts (edition of 1862) the following passage in reference to the Greenfinch {Chloris chloris) : " Another of the notes is a double one and closely resembles that of the Peewit, hence it is called in some places ' Peesweep.' " I had seen a Greenfinch, which is not a common bird here, on May 16th, and I am sure that a pair nested in the neighbourhood, for I heard the cries of the young birds, and on June 16th saw the male uttering this note from the bough of a tree. I do not know whether the note is an unusual one or confined to the breeding-season only, but I had never heard it before, and as it is a very singular and striking note I was surprised not to find it more generally mentioned in the description of this bird in other books. T. H. Briggs. RICHARD'S PIPIT IN LINCOLNSHIRE. Although the late Mr. J. Cordeaux recorded having seen an example of Richard's Pipit {Anthus r. richardi) \vhen dri\ang along the road between Tetney and the coast, the species does not appear to have been actually obtained in Lincohi- shire until November 16th, 1912, when I shot a specimen on the sea-bank in the parish of IVIarshchapel. Its long legs and the rapidity with which it ran rendered it very con- spicuous at a considerable distance. It was in good condi- tion, and very Avild. Migration was practically over, but I saw a Goldcrest on the same day, and a few Lapwings were coming in from the sea with a light east Avind. G. H. Caton Haigh. WILLOW-TIT IN DUMFRIESSHIRE. A Tit, kindly identified for me by Mr. H. F. Witherby as a Willow-Tit {Parus a. kUinschmidti), was shot at Gre
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