512 Summer Migrants in Winter, 



Domestication in England, — An individual was taken alive 

 early this winter, 1834-35, with birdlime, near Netherwit- 

 ton, Northumberland; and I saw it lately (April, 1835.), 

 very tame and healthy, in the possession of the captor, who 

 feeds it chiefly with bread. Some other individuals, its com- 

 panions, were shot, at about the same time, which he has pre- 

 served. — W. C, Trevelyan, Wallington, Northumberland, 



Instances of the Occurrence of Summer Migrant Birds in the 

 Winter Months : — 



[Com Crake."] A fresh specimen of the corn crake (Crex 

 pratensis), shot in this neighbourhood, was sent to me about 

 the middle of December, 1834 ; it was plump and in good 

 condition. 



{Water Crake,'] A single spotted water crake (Zapornia 

 Porzdna), said to have been sent up from Kent, I saw exposed 

 for sale in Newgate Market, in Jan. 1834*. I am not aware 

 that either of these species has ever previously been detected 

 to winter in this country. 



The Quail (Qoturnix vulgaris) has, according to Montagu 

 and others, occasionally been met with in winter in the southern 

 counties. I could add two or three instances of its having 

 been shot in this neighbourhood ; and I possess a very fine 

 female specimen, which was shot in Bedfordshire, in February, 

 1833. 



Most probably all these birds had passed the summer far 

 to the north. — Edward Blyth. Tooting, March 11. 1835. 



The Brambling (F?ingilla Montifringilla), a fine individual 

 of, was shot on May 6. 1835, in a fir plantation about four 

 miles east of York, by Mr, John Young, who has stuffed it, 

 and it is in his possession. — Does this species breed in this 

 country ? — Thomas Backhouse, Nurseryman, Yoi*k. 



The Turtle Dove in Cumberland. — A young male was killed 

 on RockclifT Moss, on Sept. 14*. 1833. A similar individual 

 was obtained in the neighbourhood of Carlisle in Sept. 1832. 

 " We are consequently inclined to think that the turtle dove 

 occasionally breeds in Cumberland. It is, however, very 

 rarely met with in this [the Carlisle] district." [A Contri- 

 butor, in the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, 

 third series, vol. ii. p. 97., and vol. iv, p. 336, 337.) 



The Turtle Dove shot in Perthshire, and so late, in 1834, as 

 Oct. 20. — " When last I had the pleasure of an interview, I 

 mentioned that I had stuffed a turtle dove shot on Oct. 20. 

 [1834], by Mr. John Rennie, in a field near Pitfour : at which 

 you expressed some doubt and surprise. I am quite satisfied 

 as to its being a real turtle dove, from enquiries I have made 

 in consequence of the doubts you expressed. The bird was 



