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BlSCELLANEOUa NOTICES. 



shot by a labourer, near the station at Waterbeach, in this county. It was a 

 bird of this year, and a very fine specimen. — Thomas George Bonney, 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, December 1854. 



Bittern. (Botaui'us stellaris.( — A young bird of this species was shot near 

 Repton, and is now in my collection. Many others have been obtained this 

 winter and the last, in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire — F. M. Burton, 

 Uppingham, March 12th, 1855. 



Oray Phalarope. (Phalaropus lobatus.) — A specimen was shot last Decem- 

 ber, near Lincoln. — Idem. 



Purjile Heron. (Ardea purpurea.) — A young bird of this species was shot 

 close to Lincoln, in the winter of 1854. — Idem. 



Occurrence of the Night Heron (Nycticorax Gardeni) in Yorkshire. — A speci- 

 men of this bird was shot on the 21st of May last, on a pond at Birdsall, 

 near Malton, by the keeper of H. Willoughby, Esq., in whose collection it 

 now is. This is, I believe, the second specimen which has occurred in 

 Yorkshire. — David Graham, York, July 24th, 1855. 



Supposed Breeding of tJic Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) in Yorkshire. 

 — A young bird of this species was shot on the 21st of July last, at Kelfield, 

 near York, Avhich had every appearance of having been bred there. It came 

 to me in the flesh. — Idem. 



Ring Ouzel. (Turdus torquatus.) — Last week, I had a very fine specimen of 

 the King Ouzel brought to me. It was shot in this neighbourhood. — T. C, 

 Luton, Beds., April 23rd, 1855. 



Anomalous Eggs. — A Cochin China hen, the property of Mr. G. Burgess of 

 this town, has laid eleven eggs, which are very large, weighing each from six 

 to seven ounces. Each egg contains'another egg considerably smaller, which 

 has a perfectly formed yelk. The colour of the inner egg is much darker 

 than that of the outer one. — Idem. 



Curious Malformation of a Lizard. (Zootoca vivipara.) — During the month 

 of June, 1853, I caught a specimen of the Viviparous Lizard at Southport, 

 which exhibited a curious mal-formation of the tail, of which I enclose 



you a drawing. The Lizai'd is now preserved in my collection. I should be 

 glad of any explanation of the cause of this freak of Na ture.— - Charles Fryer 

 Rumford-street, Manchester. 



