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again and saw it well as it flew over. This species is very 

 rarely seen in mid- winter, I believe. Hugh G. Attlee, 



BLACK-TAILED GODWITS IN LANCASHIRE. 



In MitchelFs Birds of Lancashire, only three individual 

 records are given of the Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) 

 for Lancashire. In British Birds, Vol. V., p. 249, I gave two 

 further records, and since then have to record the following : — 



1 . One shot by E. Webster on Longton Marsh near Preston 

 on the autumn of 1899. 



2. One obtained by the Avriters of the report in the Ribble 

 Estuary on November 13th, 1909 {Birds of the Ribble Estuary : 

 Charnley & Heathcote). 



3. "Mr. L. Greening informs me that about October 1st, 

 1912, one was obtained at Hale in Lancashire." (T. A. Coward : 

 Report of Lanes <f.' Cheshire Fauna Survey). 



4. Mr. E. Murray informs me that he saw one at close 

 quarters in the Lune Estuary on August 1st, 1913. 



5. Mr. H. P. Hornby informs me that he shot one near 

 St. Michaels-on-Wyre on November 17th, 1916, the third in 

 fortv-five years. (The other tAvo are among the three men- 

 tioned by Mitchell.) 



6. Mr. T. A. Coward writes me that he saw two among a 

 lot of Bar-tailed Godwits {Limosa lapponica) on the Ainsdale 

 shore on August 26th, 1916. 



These new records bring up the total for Lancashire from 

 five to eleven, or since Mitchell's second edition appeared in 

 1902, from three to eleven. H. W. Robinson. 



MOOR-HENS EATING FRUIT. 



I I{AVE just been reading Mr. Lewis's interesting note on this 

 subject {antea, p. 201). This delightful but omnivorous 

 bird, where immolested and in any numbers, and where, as 

 here (near Petersfield), its home is a stream that runs through 

 a garden, takes toll of most things that the gardener grows. 

 It is so quiet, so clever, so self-possessed, and looks so innocent 

 that it may do much harm before it be found out. 



Again, Moor-Hens are very fond of yew-berries. Our steep 

 hangers are fall of yew trees that undergrow the beech. In 

 early autumn, when the yews are in ripe berry, the Moor- 

 Hens will leave their pool, cross the intervening grassland, and 

 go up into the dry hangers, Avhere they walk about the boughs 

 of the yews taking the berries. I do not remember to have 

 seen a Moor-Hen actuallj^ up in these dry chalk hangers at 

 anv other time of the vear. Aubyn Trevor-Battye. 



