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Every Turnip-field as well as stubble has its share of them settling on the leaves 

 of that plant. I am not aware what food they obtain from the Turnip. Perhaps 

 some of your correspondents can give information on this point. In the depth of 

 winter, and during severe snow-storms, they almost to a bird disappear. In 

 answer to Dr. Liverpool's query, I should say that the term " common " is not 

 unaptly given to this species. E. sc/iceniclus and E. nivalis (in this neighbour- 

 hood), &c. &c, are certainly less numerous, and, excepting during its partial 

 migrations, it equals, if not exceeds, in number E. citrinella. 



Further Notes on Birds. 



On Thursday last, Dec. ?, I procured a specimen of the Common Robin, in 

 which both the wings and tail were white. I believe it to be the same bird I 

 mentioned in a former number (Vol. II., p. 327), though at that time only the 

 wings were white. The Grey Crows, Wild Geese, and Fieldfares are more 

 numerous this year than usual, and arrived rather earlier. The common Wild 

 Duck, and various other species of water-fowl, seem almost banished from this 

 part of Lincolnshire, and which, according to Camden, were once so common. 

 " All this tract over at certain seasons, good God, what store of fowls (to say 

 nothing of fishes) is here to be found, &c. &c. ...... I mean such as we have no 



Latin names for, the very delicate dainties, indeed of service meates for the 

 demigods." 



I remain, yours truly, 



Swinhope House, Lincolnshire, R. P. Alington. 



Dec. 0, 1837. 



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Mistake in a Communication by the Rev. F. 0. Morris. 

 To the Editor of the Naturalist. 

 Dear Sir, — Mr. Morris has mentioned (Vol. II., p. 490) my authority for a 

 hybrid between the Pheasant and Grouse in Eyton's Rarer British Birds. If 

 he can prove that J informed him so, I will make him a present of that book 

 which I never saw ! ! ! I have White's Selborne, where there is a plate like the 

 above. I may have told him of that, but deny that I did of Eyton's. 



I am, dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 

 Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire, J- C. Dale. 



Dec. 12, 1837. 



