SEVERAL very interesting items occurred during the autumn of 1948 with bird movements in Britain. On August 21 and 22 an American greater yellow-shank (Totures melanoleucus), the sixth British record, appeared a Ecton Sewage Farm, Northamptonshire, where a grey phalarope, the first county record since 1962. and an osprey appeared in September. On September 13 an American pectoral sandpiper (Calidris melanotis) appeared at Salthouse Marsh in Norfolk, another was reported from Sinderland, in Cheshire, on September 10, and a third at Thorney Island, Sussex, on October 3. On September 9 an immature cormorant (Phalocrocorax carbo) with four legs was obtained at Seaforth, Lancashire ; later it died in Liverpool, but X-ray and other photographs were taken for the Merseyside Naturalists' Association. A grey phalarope also appeared at Worsley Sewage Farm, Lancashire, on September 5. On November 11 a little bunting (Emberiza pusilla) was added to the bird records of Cumberland by R. Stokoe, a careful observer, at a roadside pool at Siddick, near Workington. Whooper swans were on the same water, and earlier that month on Derwentwater. A gadwall was shot at Frodsham, Cheshire, early in December. Ringed bird returns have included this season a turnstone in Cheshire, marked by Stavanger ornithological station in Norway ; and a Manx shearwater found at Leigh, Lancashire (an inland location), on September 5, was marked at the Skokholm colony, South Wales, as recently as August 28.