288 BRITISH BIRDS. 



WHITE-TAILED EAGLE IN CARNARVONSHIRE. 



A PARAGRAPH lias been going the round of the newspapers 

 to the effect that a " Golden Eagle," which had been raiding 

 the sheep on the mountains of Lleyn during the latter half 

 of November, had at length been shot in the wing and captured 

 alive. The Eagle is in the possession of Mr. Godfrey Fitzhugh, 

 Wrexham, who is endeavouring to heal the injury to the 

 wing. He informs me that it is an immature Haliaetus 

 alhicilla, as I had anticipated. It was taken near Abersoch 

 on November 29th, 1910. This is the first authenticated 

 occurrence of the species in Carnarvonshire (c/. Vert. Fauna 

 N. Wales, p. 228). H. E. Forrest. 



PINTAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. 



The following are the recent records of Pintails {Dafila 

 acuta) in Staffordshire, as far as I have been able to ascertain 

 them : — An immature male at Barlaston in November, 1885 ; 

 five on Galley Pool, October 22nd, 1890, and three there 

 December 3rd, 1895 ; four shot at Leigh in 1895 ; one at 

 Bloxwich in February, 1898 ; a male shot at Hilderstone 

 February 4th, 1901 ; and the further records in December 

 British Birds (p. 218). John R. B. Masefield. 



GOOSANDERS AND CORMORANT IN BEDFORDSHIRE. 



On December 26th, 1910, 1 noticed for the first time two female 

 Goosanders {M. merganser) on the Woburn Park ponds, and 

 the birds are still here (January 27th, 1911). 



On December 31st I also saw a Cormorant (Phalacrocorax 

 carbo) on another pond in the park. As I believe these 

 birds have seldom been recorded from Bedfordshire, these 

 occurrences may be worth noting. 



Harry Lewis. 



LITTLE STINTS IN ANGLESEY. 



It may be worth while adding another instance of the 

 occurrence of Little Stints {Tringa minuta) in Anglesey to the 

 few " meagre records " which are contained in the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of North Wales. On the shore at Rhosneigr, on May 

 23rd, 1907, I watched from very close quarters with my 

 glasses a party of fifteen of these pretty little Avaders, and when 

 ultimately I apiDroached them they permitted me to come to 

 A\ ithin a distance of five yards before taking \A'ing. 



R. W. Jones. 



