. British birds. Birds. OTES. INCREASE AND DECREASE IN SUMMER- RESIDENTS. Our Readers are reminded that a Schedule relating to this inquiry was sent out with the March issue of the Magazine. We hope that every Reader who is able to give any information on the subject, will fill in the details and return the Schedule by the end of the breeding-season. Further copies of this Schedule, as well as of that for the Land-Rail inquiry, will be supplied on application. The Editors. JAY IMITATING THE " DRUMMING " OE THE SNIPE. As an imitator of alien sounds the Jay {Garrulus g. ru/ltergum) is
. British birds. Birds. OTES. INCREASE AND DECREASE IN SUMMER- RESIDENTS. Our Readers are reminded that a Schedule relating to this inquiry was sent out with the March issue of the Magazine. We hope that every Reader who is able to give any information on the subject, will fill in the details and return the Schedule by the end of the breeding-season. Further copies of this Schedule, as well as of that for the Land-Rail inquiry, will be supplied on application. The Editors. JAY IMITATING THE " DRUMMING " OE THE SNIPE. As an imitator of alien sounds the Jay {Garrulus g. ru/ltergum) is notorious, and moreover possesses notes of his own both harsh and beautiful. But though fully aware of his faculty in this respect, I was nevertheless surprised to hear one imitate, and imitate very well, the " drumming" of the Snipe [Gallinago g. gallinago). However, there was no doubt about it. 1 was standing in some marshy ground watching the Snipe as they circled round, when a Jay appeared and settled in a hedge some fifty yards from where I was standing. There he remained for some time preening his feathers, when to my surprise I heard the " drumming " sound proceeding not only from above, where the Snipe were still circling, but also from the hedge. Not satisfied that a Jay was capable of reproducing so peculiar a noise, I watched his movements the more carefully, and was ultimately able to observe that as he moved from one part of the hedge to another, so the sound proceeded from just that part in which he had settled. H. Eliot Howard. GOLDEN ORIOLE IN CO. TYRONE. Messrs. Sheals, taxidermists, have received a female Golden Oriole {Oriolus o. oriolus) from Coalisland, co. Tyrone, Avhich was found dead and brought in by a dog on May 11th, 1913. Wm. C. Wright. CIRL BUNTING IN ESSEX. With reference to the note by Mr. J. H. Owen (Vol. VI., p. 372) on Girl Buntings {Emheriza cirlus) breeding in Essex, it may be worth recording that I saw on June 4th, 1910,
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