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{Tetrao tetrix), a few hazel grouse (Tetrao bonasia), and willow grouse 

 {Lagoptis sa/iceti). Very few wild-fowl {Anatidce). 



November 26th. Received three snipes, five jack snipes, and a wild 

 duck from Lilford. 



December Tth. Began corrections and addenda for Dresser's 

 Birds of Europe. Received three snipes from Lilford. 



December i^th. Heard from G. Hunt that he had killed eleven 

 wild ducks with one shot with the big gun which I gave him, also 

 that there are hardly any fieldfares (Turdus pilaris) in the country. 

 Leo sent a skin of hybrid, I think second cross between Reeves's 

 {Phasianus reevesi) and common pheasant. This bird has a trace 

 of white neck collar, I believe it is from Suffolk, a descendant of the 

 old male Reeves's cock pheasant which I gave to Nat Barnardiston 

 years ago ; this bird met his fate lately after propagating a numerous 

 hybrid race. 



December -ioth. I received a letter from Rev. G. E. Morris, 

 Rector of Middleton Scriven, near Bridgnorth, Salop, enclosing head 

 and wing of a petrel picked up in that neighbourhood, about which 

 he had written to the Standard {vide Standard, December 8th, 1881, 

 p. 2), and which I think is not, as he supposes, the stormy petrel 

 (Thalassidroma pelagica), but a young fork-tailed petrel {Thalassidroma 

 leucorrhoa). 



December wth. I make out from Dresser's book that the petrel 

 above mentioned is a specimen of Leach's or the fork-tailed petrel. 



Brighton 



December 2-i,rd. Went to Swaysland, who showed us a pair of 

 fork-tailed petrels recently obtained near this place, also two birds 

 which look like hybrids between greenfinch {Fringilla chloris) and 

 brown linnet {Fringilla catiiiabina) ; of this Swaysland says he has 

 obtained many specimens. He also had some good specimens of grey 

 redstart {Ruticilla cairii), to my mind a very distinct bird from black 

 redstart {Ruticilla titys), which often turns up here, and of which 

 Swaysland had several specimens. 



