NOTES. 115 



CASPIAN PLOVERS IN SUSSEX. 

 On Jaly 13th, 1911, a pair of Caspian Plovers {Mgialitis 

 asiatica) were shot on Romney Marsh ; the male was in perfect 

 plumage, but the female was somewhat worn. I examined 

 both birds in the flesh on July 14th. H. W. Ford- Lindsay. 



RED-NECKED, NOT GREY, PHALAROPE 

 IN WARWICKSHIRE. 



A CORRECTION. 



It is with much regret that I have to state that I was in. 

 error in recording the Grey Phalarope from Warwickshire 

 {supra, p. 26). Mr. T. Ground of Kenilworth has informed 

 me that the bird in question is in his possession, and is an 

 example of P. hyperboreus not P. fulicarius ; I have been to 

 see Mr. Ground, and have satisfied myseH that he is quite 

 correct ; the age, sex, etc., hold good. 



I am very sorry indeed that I should have been the means 

 of introducing an error into the magazine. 



A. Geoffrey Leigh. 



Birds struck by Lightning. — Mr. R. Fortune records 

 {Nat., 1911, p. 280) that on the night of June 25th-26th, 

 1911, a hen Pheasant and her ten young ones were killed 

 by lightning in the middle of a field near Harrogate ; and 

 within 160 yards a Partridge, sitting upon a nestful of twenty 

 newly-hatched chicks, was foand to have been killed in the 

 same way with all her chicks. Reproductions of photo- 

 graphs accompany the article. Some notes on the subject 

 of birds being killed bv lightning appeared in our first volume 

 (pp. 29 and 62). 



Flight of the Swift. — Those of our readers who are 

 particularlv interested in questions of flight, should read an 

 article in the Field (29, VII., 1911, page 314) by Mr. A. E. 

 Crawley, who compares the structure and movements of the 

 Swift to those of certain monoplanes. 



Abnormally large Cuckoo's Egg. — Mr. J. H. Owen, 

 in the Field for July 22nd, 1911, records an exceptionally 

 large infertile and double-yolked Cuckoo's egg, found near 

 Felsted, Essex, in 1911. Although most birds occasionally 

 lay double-yolked eggs, such specimens appear to be unusually 

 rare in the case of the Cuckoo, and neither the Rey 

 collection (913 eggs) nor that of Capek (245) contained 

 any double-yolked specimens. Mr. Owen's egg measures 



