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wings were all of a jet black, and the remainder a beautiful 

 flesh-colour." 



Dr. W. H. Dobie in his Birdfi of West Cheshire, Denbighshire 

 and Flintshire (1893), quotes from Mr. A. 0. Walker's diary 

 that a Rose-coloured Starling was " killed at Point of Air 

 (circ. December), 1862, at lighthouse." This note is again 

 copied by jMi". Forrest in his Fauna of Xorth Wales. Con- 

 sidering ho\\- rare the species is in Wales, it seems probable 

 that these two notes refer to the same bird, and the first is 

 certain to be correct. September is a more likely month 

 for the occiu-rence than December, and Mi-. \\'alker's 

 informant probably spoke from meinory. T. A. Coward. 



LAPLAND BUNTINCI IN CO. DOWN. 



A MAiiE Lapland Bunting {Calcarius 1. lapponicus) was 

 caught a few weeks ago (in Januar}^ 1916) at Killough, co. 

 Down, along with a lot of Linnets and sent to Belfast, 

 and is now in the ])ossession of a well-known bird fancier of 

 this city, where 1 had the pleasure of examining it. 



Wm. C. \VKi(;H'r. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD IX BERKSHIRE. 



A Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo I. lagopus) was killed near 

 Wallingford in November. 1915, and sent to Mr. Topp, 

 taxidermist, of Reading, on the 18th. l^nfortunately it 

 was not sexed. 



A female Conunon Buzzard was tiap[)ed at Whitcchurch 

 (Oxfordshire) on or about October 19th, 1915. 



He.m'lev Noble. 



SPOONBILL IN DI^:VON. 



On January 7th, 1916, whilst travelling in the express to 

 J'lyjuouth, 1 saw a Spootibill {Plataha I. leucorodia) on the 

 nnid-llats between 'J'eigiunouth and Newton Abbot. It was 

 not far fnun the line, and shunied away as the train ])asise(l. 

 but did not ap})ear greatly disconcertetl thereby. I had ;i 

 short but \ciy cleai' view of the bird. It will l)e interesting 

 to know foi' how long this visitoi- remained unmolested in 

 that region. 1 fear it will scarcely iuive esca])ed destruction. 

 The only other example I have seen was in Northumberland 

 on May 25th, 1904, and many gmuiers tried to get this bird, 

 but I believe unsuccessfully. It was seen again on June 4th 

 of the same year. Catharim; lldixjKiN, 



