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■Galway, on September 19th, 1912. The Wiyneek has only 

 been recorded six times previously in Ireland. 



Levantine Shearwater in Yorkshire. — Mr. W. J. 

 €larke records {Nat., 1912, p. 301) the occurrence of an adult 

 ■example of Puffinvs p. yelkoiicm shot from a boat a few- 

 miles south-east off Scarborough on the evening of September 

 3rd. 1912. 



Spotted Redshank in Cumberland. — A specimen of 

 Tringa erythropus is recorded by Mr. H. Mackay [Scot. Nat., 

 1912, p. 259) as having been seen by Mr. Nichol near Skin- 

 l^urness (Solway) " recently," presumably autumn, 1912. 



Avocet in CO. DoNEGAL.^ — Mr. D. C. Campbell records 

 ■{Irish Nat., 1912, p. 208) that about the middle of October, 

 1911, a sjDecimen of Recur cirostra avosefta was shot at the 

 mill-dam, Buncrana, Lough Swilly. 



Black-tailed Godwits in Ireland. — Mr. R. Warren 

 notes {ZooL, 1912. p. 396) the occurrence of Limosa limosa 

 in Cork Harbour in the middle of September, 1912, and on 

 the Shandon Estuary, co. Waterford. on September 21st 

 {c.f. Vol. v., p. 203). 



Black-tailed Godwits in the Outer Hebrides and 

 CuiMBERLAND. — A Specimen of Limosa limosa. is reported by 

 Mr. D. Mackenzie (Scot. Nat., 1912, p. 237) as hax-ing been 

 ■shot near Stornoway, Lewis, on August 31st. 1912. The 

 •species is very rarely noted in the Outer Hebrides. Another 

 is recorded as seen on the English side of the Solwav in the 

 autumn of 1912 (^c, p. 259). 



Dark-throated variety of Quail in Northampton- 

 shire.— Mr. O. V. Aplin records {ZooJ., 1912, p. 349) that a 

 Quail with the middle of the throat nearly black shading off 

 to rich chestnut -brown at the sides, was killed last spring 

 at Middleton Cheney. Mr. Aplin considers the bird a hybrid 

 between Coturnix c. coturnix and C. c. capptisis, but if this 

 is really so it is most remarkable that the offspring of a bird 

 which lives in South Africa should come here to breed. 



