MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 21 



Eose-Coloured Pastor, (Pastor roseus.) — A specimen of the Rose- Coloured 

 Pastor was brought to me on the 12th. of August. It was shot tlie same 

 day near to Middlesbro'. — Thomas Bedlington, Commercial Street, Mid- 

 dlesbro', October oth., 1855. 



Mountain Finch, (Fringilla montifringilla.) — Three specimens of the 



Mountain Finch were brought to me this morning in a very exhausted 



state; they were captured on board of a ship last night as she was taking 

 the Tees. — Idem, 



Long-tailed Tits, (Parus caudatus.) — During the last severe winter I saw 

 nine Long-tailed Tits flying through the streets of Middlesbro'. I noticed 

 either the same birds or others of the species five successive days. They 

 flew very low, and seemed to be suffering from the severity of the weather. 

 I only know of another instance of those birds approaching towns. I also 

 saw about the same time five Gold-crests, {Regulus cristatus,) in a ship 

 yard. I captured two with my hands, but they died the same day. — Idem. 



Paiiridges. — I know of more than a dozen instances of coveys of Par- 

 tridges alighting in the streets of Middlesbro'; generally all of them are 

 captured as they run into any place to hide. Last year I saw sixteen 

 Partridges drop into the Tees, as they were attempting to fly across: they 

 were all drowned — the wind was blowing strongly at the time. — Idem. 



Each Thrush, (Turdus saxitilis.) — In June, 1852, I saw a bird in the 

 neighbourhood of Robin Hood's Bay that I was not at all acquainted with. 

 I followed it about two miles, and often got within a dozen yards of it by 

 creeping behind the hedges. In its movements it was very like a Thrush, 

 but it was rather smaller in size. I had no gun with me, or I could very 

 easily have shot it. The bird got shy at last, I having followed it up 

 very closely. It finally disappeared in a plantation. The bird was the Rock 

 Thrush. I was able to identify the species in a moment after seeing the 

 coloured figure in Morris's ''British Birds." — Idem. 



Ring Ouzel, (Turdus torquatus.) — I have found the nest of the Ring 

 Ouzel four different times in the neighbourhood of Robin Hoods Bay. — Idem, 



Notes on Fish mid Wild-fowl. During the last mild winter some ex- 

 traordinary draughts of Fish have been taken in the River Idle, at Misson^ 

 but the arrival of wild-fowl has been unusually small, scarcely indeed affording 

 remuneration for the time and trouble spent in watching for these welcome 

 visitors. Hence the occasions of "fleeting" have been few and far between. 

 They generally make their appearance about dusk in the evening in quest 

 of food. The distance which some of these strangers will travel in the 

 course of a short time, is almost incredible to those who are ignorant of 

 their habits. It is a well-ascertained fact that the Eider Duck can fly 



