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two specimens of L. I. holboelli from Shetland on October 

 28th, 1910 (Afm. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 115). Mr. W. Evans 

 also records {t.c, p. 114), that besides the one already 

 mentioned in our pages {supra, p. 292), he examined] a 

 number of others from the Lotliians. 



Northern Bullfinch in Scotland. — In connection 

 with the occurrence of Pyrrhula p. pyrrJmla already recorded 

 in our pages {supra, pp. 211, 250, 292), it is interesting to note 

 that Mr. W. Evans reports {Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 113) 

 one from Archerfield (East Lothian) on October 29th, 1910. 

 A Bullfinch seen by Mr. Budge on October 31st, at Barns- 

 ness Light, near Dunbar (Haddington), was also probably 

 of this race, as Avas another caught in the neighbourhood of 

 Berwick-on-Tweed (Northumberland) in the same autumn. 

 Mr. Evans mentions that a specimen was captured about 

 the end of October, 1884, on the coast near LOngniddry 

 (Haddington). 



Northern Great Spotted Woodpecker in Scotland. — 

 In connection with the note on this subject {supra, p. 286), 

 and especially with regard to the bird obtained in Yorkshire 

 on September 14th, 1909, it is interesting to find that a Spotted 

 Woodpecker obtained by the Misses Rintoul and Baxter at 

 the Isle of May on September 16th, 1909, and already referred 

 to in these pages (Vol. III., p. 378), has been pronounced to be 

 a specimen of D. m. major by Dr. C. B. Ticehurst {Ann. Scot. 

 Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 116). 



Spotted Sandpiper in Yorkshire. — In a recent issue 

 (p. 319) we expressed a doubt as to the authenticity of a 

 specimen of a Spotted Sandpiper shot at or near Hebden 

 Bridge about 1899, and recorded by Mr. Walter Greaves in 

 the Naturalist (1911, pp. 100-101). Mr. Greaves has very 

 kindly written to us on the subject, and supplemented the 

 information given in the article referred to. Although the 

 exact date and exact locality are uncertain, there can be, 

 we think, on Mr. Greaves' s new evidence, no reasonable doubt 

 that the bird was in fact shot at or near Hebden Bridge about 

 1899. Mr. Greaves tells us that the taxidermist from whom 

 his information is derived is in no sense a dealer, but is a 

 stuffer of locally-obtained specimens ; that he well remembers 

 skinning this bird himself, and immediately noticing that it 

 was a species new to him. There is little chance, therefore, 

 that any mistake could have been made, although, unfortu- 

 nately, the essential details of date and locality were not 

 attached to the skin. 



