. British birds. Birds. nOTES. UNUSUAL nesting-sitp:8 of pied wagtail. Referring to the notes on this subject {antea, pp. 185 and 225), perhaps Mr. Jourdain may like to add the following to his hst :— In 1905 I knew a nest in a goods-shed at Llannwchllyn llailway Station, in Merionethshire, in which a Robin and a Pied Wagtail each laid an egg every morning initil it was taken by some schoolboys with I think (speaking from memory), ten eggs, equally divided between each species. The nest was founded upon an old Swallow's, on the top of a rafter, and luid evidently been built by the Wagtail. I r
. British birds. Birds. nOTES. UNUSUAL nesting-sitp:8 of pied wagtail. Referring to the notes on this subject {antea, pp. 185 and 225), perhaps Mr. Jourdain may like to add the following to his hst :— In 1905 I knew a nest in a goods-shed at Llannwchllyn llailway Station, in Merionethshire, in which a Robin and a Pied Wagtail each laid an egg every morning initil it was taken by some schoolboys with I think (speaking from memory), ten eggs, equally divided between each species. The nest was founded upon an old Swallow's, on the top of a rafter, and luid evidently been built by the Wagtail. I remember at least one other case of a Pied Wagtail building in an okl Swallow's nest (in Northumberland). Just north of the Tweed, in Berwickshire, I have seen this Wagtail occupying a Thrush's nest on the face of an old wall, but that I should not regard as a ver}^ unusual circumstance. Nor is it very rare to find it nesting upon the ground either under shelter of a })ush or at the foot of a wall, at least not with us in the north. George Bolam. On May 16th, 1915, I found a Pied Wagtail nesting in the remains of an old Dipper's nest at Birtles, Cheshire. The Dipper's nest was situated on a ledge over a culvert flowing into a small stream. The Wagtail's nest contained eggs and young. E. W. Hendy. TWO WHITE AND ONE NORMAL HEDGE-SPARROWS IN SAME BROOD. I HAVE just skinned (January 13th) a Hedge-Sparrow which is practically an albino, except that the eyes were normal in colour ; legs and bill pale pinkish. It was taken from a nest near Newcastle-on-Tyne in the summer and had lived in con- finement since. The brood consisted of three birds, one of wliich was in the ordinary plumage, the other two being white. George Bolam. LATE NESTING OF SWALLOW IN CHESHIRE. With reference to Mr. Dewhurst's note on this subject [antea, p. 137), on September 5th; 1915, I ringed four young Swallows in a nest near Shuttlings Low on the east Cheshire hills. On Sej)tember 10th of the same year, a frie
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