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from below, such as might liappen if the \\ing had an 

 unindented edge. In Figure 2 the down-stroke is almost 

 finished, and the feathers have lost their upward curve. 



F. W. Headley. 



GREAT GREY SHRIKE AND EIDER DUCK IN 

 KIRCUDBRIGHTSHIRE . 



On 17th November, 1907, I saw a Great Grey Shrike in the 

 valley of the Palnure, N.B. Though I had a gun in my 

 hand and the bird was close, I did not shoot it as many 

 occurrences have been recorded in the county. I hoped that 

 it might be fortunate enough to run the gauntlet of the 

 British Islands, but I see one was caught in Yorkshire about 

 23rd November, which might have been the same. 



On 18th November I saw a female Eider Duck in Kircud- 

 bright Bay. These have also been frequently noted in the 

 Solway, but the bird is sufficiently rare to be worthy of 

 record. M. Bedford. 



YELLOW-BREASTED OR WILLOW-BUNTING 



{Emberiza aureola Pallas) IN NORFOLK. 



Ak immature female of the above species was shot by Patrick 

 Cringle, a son of one of Lord Leicester's watchers, on the 

 Cabbage Creek Marsh, near Wells, Norfolk, on 5th September, 

 1907. I saw the bird in the flesh the same day with Mr. 

 Alec. J. Napier, of Holkham. The latter forwarded it for 

 preservation to Mr. T. E. Gunn, the taxidermist, of Norwich, 

 who identified it^and his identification was confirmed, I 

 believe, at the meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 

 Society, on 28th October, 1907, by Mr. J. H. Gurney and 

 Mr. Southwell. Mr. Napier kindly allowed me to show the 

 bird at the November meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club, and previously to the meeting I took it to the Natural 

 History Museum to show it to Dr. Bowdler Sharpe. He 

 very kindly allowed me to compare it with the skins in the 

 collection, and there is, I think, no doubt of the identification. 

 In the present specimen the beak is darker than in any of the 

 Museum specimens, and the bird is a very dingy specimen. 

 In the first number of British Birds, Howard Saunders, 

 in referring to the first occurrence of this species in these 

 islands, viz., an immature female shot at Cley, Norfolk, by 

 Mr. E. C. Arnold, of Eastbourne College, on 21st Sej)tember, 

 1905, writes : " As the bird had been recorded thrice in 

 Heligoland, as well as many times in northern Italy and 

 south-eastern France, its apparition is not remarkable." 



F. G. Penrose. 



