314 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vi. 



[In the Field (l.ii.l3, p. 237) Capt. L. Creaghe Creaghe- 

 Haward records that one of his men observed two or more 

 SwalloMS hawking round the house at Glenellen, Milltown, 

 CO. Kerry, for the greater part of the day on January 23rd, 

 1913.— Eds.] 



BRENT GOOSE IN DERBYSHIRE. 



Mr. T. E. Auden informs me that on January 10th a Brent 

 Goose {Branta h. bernida) was brought to him in the flesh, and 

 only recently dead, at Danesgate near Repton. It had Ijeen 

 caught alive, but completely exhausted, on the previous night 

 in the yard of a cottage at Winshill, in the part of Burton-on- 

 Trent which lies in Derbyshire, and died the following 

 morning. 



Though always rare inland, Brent Geese have been recorded 

 on several occasions from Derbyshire. Pilkington and J. J. 

 Briggs both state that it has occurred, and Whitlock saw one 

 on the Trent in October, 1888 {Birds of Derbyshire, p. 163). 

 Sir R. Payne Gallwey also mentions an instance of one of 

 two being shot on the River Derwent near Derby about 

 1890, and one was killed on the River Dove near Rocester 

 in January, 1903 (Jourdain, Vict. Hist, of Derbyshire, I., 

 p. 139, and Addenda, p. xxix. ; Zool., 1904, p. 103). 



In a note on this subject in the Field (February 1st, 1913, 

 p. 237), Mr. Auden's name is incorrectly given. 



F. C. R. JOURDAIN. 



PINTAIL IN ESSEX. 



On January 26th, 1913, I identified a male Pintail {Dafila 

 acuta) on Connaught Water, Chingford, Essex. On clapping 

 my hands the bird took flight and, joining some Mallards, 

 soared round over the lake, and finally alighted on the water 

 in company A^ith the other Ducks. I visited the lake on 

 February 2nd, and again had the pleasure of seeing the 

 Pintail. 



As Connaught Water is only about eleven miles from 

 St. Paul's, and as the Pintail is a scarce visitor to Essex, 

 this occurrence seems worth recording. 



William E. Glegg. 



LITTLE DUSKY SHEARWATER IN KENT. 



In Country Life for January 18th last, Mr. R. Lydekker 

 published the record of a Little Dusky Shearwater that 

 had been picked up in an exhausted condition at Welling 

 in Kent on August 20th, 1912. He stated that it A\as the 

 property of a member of the staff at Rowland Ward Ltd. 



