. British birds. Birds. ores. CONTINENTAL JAYS IN NORFOLK. T HAVE for some time suspected that the Coiitmental Jay (Oarrulus g. glandarim) must occur in Norfolk during the winter because, though not a very common bird in the nesting season (which is hardly surprising, considering the extent of game preservation). Jays are remarkably abundant in Norfolk during the winter months, it being no uncommon thing to see as many as fifteen or twenty put out of one small wood by the beaters, Avhen covert-shooting. During the past winter I have had the opportunity of examining a good many Norfolk- killed
. British birds. Birds. ores. CONTINENTAL JAYS IN NORFOLK. T HAVE for some time suspected that the Coiitmental Jay (Oarrulus g. glandarim) must occur in Norfolk during the winter because, though not a very common bird in the nesting season (which is hardly surprising, considering the extent of game preservation). Jays are remarkably abundant in Norfolk during the winter months, it being no uncommon thing to see as many as fifteen or twenty put out of one small wood by the beaters, Avhen covert-shooting. During the past winter I have had the opportunity of examining a good many Norfolk- killed specimens, and have been struck by the greyness of the back of some of them. I therefore recently sent five skins, which had been shot in Norfolk during January and February, 1918. to Dr. Hartert at Tring. He has very kindly compared them with the series in the Tring Museum, and reports that three of them are undoubtedly of the Continental race {Garrulus g. glandariiis). the remaining two being British [Oarrulus g. rufitergum). I believe the only other counties from which the Continental Jay has u[) to now been recorded are Kent and Sussex. B. B. Riviere. MARSH-WARBLERS BREEDING IN SUSSEX, WARWICKSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. On July 12th, 1917, I found on an island in a Sussex pond a nest with three eggs, which I at once suspected of being those of a Marsh-Warbler [A. palustris). Several jiairs of Reed- Warblers nest at the pond, but I had never known them breed outside the reeds, which form an extensive bed. This nest, however, was in meadow-sweet at the edge of the island, and it was roughly made and had handles, which, though not very striking to begin with, soon became a prominent feature when the nest had been blown about a bit by the wind, and more especially when the eggs were superseded by the heavier nestlings. None of the stems went through the nest itself. One egg was taken and submitted to Mr. Jourdain, who stated that it might well be a Marsh-Warbler's, though not of t
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