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white, encircling the belly, as in P. erythrocephala ; throat and 

 fore neck grey, whitish towards the chin ; the abdominal region 

 paler grey, and the lower tail-coverts pure white. Tail as in P. 

 nipalensis. A broad brownish-grey band [\ inch broad) tipping 

 the greater wing-coverts. A new Propasser I call P. frontalis. 

 It is most like P. rhodopepla, but has a smaller bill and longer 

 tail. Feathers of forehead, supercilia, and throat elongated and 

 narrow, and glistening rosy, with the centres of a vinaceous 

 white ; the broad frontal band almost whitish. The female also 

 is very diflFerent from the female of the other species. There 

 are other good things in his collections." 



Mr. Gatke writing from Heligoland (August 12th) says : — 

 " The harvest of this spring does not furnish so interesting a 

 list as I formerly communicated to you ; nevertheless not many 

 collectors of our latitude might be able to match even that. I 

 obtained here, April 29th, a very fine old male of Emberiza 

 cirlus ; May 7th, quite as fine a specimen of Totanus stagnatilis ; 

 May 16th, a Strix scops, — these three species being new to 

 Heligoland. Further, May 16th, also a very fine old male 

 Emb. ccesia ; and on the 28th of the same month, a fine Emb. 

 melanocephala, old male." 



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A fine adult male of the Dotterel {Charadrius morinellus) was 

 killed at Tringhoe, in a corn-field, on the 14th inst., by one of 

 Earl Brownlow's keepers. It is now, through the kindness of a 

 friend, in my possession. I regret to say that it got terribly 

 fly-blown before it came into my hands, and I fear it will be 

 scarcely fit for stuffing. I am not aware that the occurrence of 

 this bird has been previously recorded in Buckinghamshire. 

 There is, however, some bleak down-country in the vicinity of 

 Tringhoe not at all uncongenial to its habits. 



" H. Harpur Crewe." 

 "The Rectory, Drayton Beauchainp, Tring, Aug. 23, 1862." 



" Since my last letter, announcing the occurrence of the Dot- 

 terel {Charadrius morinellus) at Tringhoe, Bucks, I have gleaned 



