388 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Muscica'pa atricapilla in 1907, but the locality is not 

 mentioned {A7in. S.N.H., 1907, p. 183, and 1908, p. 118). 



Nutcracker in Kent. — The '• Field," April 4th, contains a 

 record of the fact that a Nutcracker {Nucifraga caryocatactes) 

 was shot " in Kent" on December 29th, 1907. Mr. Norman 

 Richardson, who sends this note, does not give further 

 particulars as to locality or sex, or as to whether this bird was 

 of the typical form or of the Siberian race, N. c. macrorhynclms. 



Tengmalm's Owl in Shetland. — Mr. Erik Hamilton writes 

 to the " Field," x\pril 4th, to say he had received, in the flesh, 

 an apparently adult female Tengmalm's Owl {Nyclala teng- 

 malmi) killed in the Shetlands on January 4th, 1908. 



Little Owl in Gloucestershire. — Mr. Collingwood 



Ingram writes that a specimen of Athene noctua was found 



dead on February 20th, 1908, at Fairford [Zool., 1908, 

 p. 113). 



Bittern in East Lothian. — On January 8tli a male 

 Botaurus stellaris was captured alive near Whittingehame 

 (W. Evans, Ann. S.N.H., 1908, p. 119). 



Glossy Ibises in Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire. — Mr. 

 George Sim records that an immature example of Plegadis 

 jalcinellus was shot at Watermill, Fraserburgh, during the 

 " harve§t-time " of 1907 {Zool, 1908, p. 113). Mr. John 

 Robertson records that an immature female of the same 

 species was shot near Irvine, Ayrshire, in the middle of 

 September, 1907 {A^in. S.N.H., 1908, p. 119). 



Pink-footed Goose in co. Roscommon. — Mr. H. G. 0. 

 Bfidgeman records that while \\'aiting for Bean Geese, on 

 February 17th, 1908, on an island on Lough Key, two birds 

 came over him, one of which he shot and found to be an 

 example of Anser brachyrkynchus, Avhich has only once before 

 been recorded from Ireland {Irish Naturalist,- 1908, p. 82). 



Teal Nesting in North Devon. — Mr. B. F. Cummings 

 records the nesting, in 1907, at the mouth of the Taw, of 

 Ncttion crecoa, which he says has not hitherto been recorded 

 as nesting in North Devon {Zool, 1908, p. 100). 



Smew inland in Dumfriesshire. — Mr. Hugh S. Gladstone 

 records that two immature examples of Mergus alhellus occurred 

 on January 6th at Dalswinton, ten miles from the sea {Ann. 

 S.N.H., 1908, p. 119). 



Land-Rail in Edinburgh in Winter. — An example of 

 Crex pratensis was found dead in a fresh condition in a garden 



