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wings, possibly may have been the somewhat longer plumules, 

 or filaments, covering the scapulars. At all events, it seems 

 worth while to direct attention to what may have been an 

 anticipation of Mr. Brigham's observation. 



I am &c., 



J. E. Harting. 



Sirs, — The first occurrence in England of so great a waif 

 as Saxicola deserti may be deemed worthy of record in the 

 pages of ' The Ibis.^ 



The bird in question was shot between the villages of 

 Easington and Kilnsea, on the Holderness coast of York- 

 shire, on the 17th of October last, and forwarded to me as a 

 light variety of Saxicola oenanthe. The specimen is a young 

 female, though too much injured to be proved such by dis- 

 section, and was exhibited on my behalf by Mr. H. E. 

 Dresser at the Meeting of the Zoological Society of London 

 on the 17th of November, 1885. 



Yours &c., 



Wm. Eagle Clarke. 



18 Olaremont Eoad, Headingley, Leeds. 

 Dec. 10, 1885. 



The Birds ofCorea. — A new field is now open to naturalists 

 in Corea, of the ornithology of which it may be said that 

 absolutely nothing is known. It is evident, from Vice-Consul 

 Cartes^'s recently published narrative of his journey from Soul 

 to the Phyong-Kang Gold-washings, that there is no difficulty 

 in traversing the country. It is also evident that interesting 

 birds are to be found there, from the subjoined passage in the 

 Vice-Consurs Report : — 



'^The chain of granite mountains which incloses Soul came 

 to an end on the evening of our first day's march, and brought 

 us into a more picturesque, though less open country. Away 

 to the east lay the Amsan hills, where the King is said to 

 have his hunting-parties, and in which are many fir woods of 

 considerable extent. In one of these was a colony of Egrets, 

 towards which hundreds of birds were finding their way, 



