286 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Staffordshire. — Mr. W. Wells Bladen writes : " On Feb- 

 ruary 2nd, on the morning of which day we had a north- 

 easterly blizzard with ten degrees of frost, a Little Auk {Mer- 

 gulus alle), which had been found on the frozen canal at Stone, 

 was brought to me. It was entirely uninjured and very lively ; 

 not at all shy, as it pecked at my finger when I fed it with tiny 

 morsels of whiting. During the following afternoon it became 

 very restless, and in the evening died. Previous records for 

 the county are : Several on the Trent in 1843 ; one, Walsall, 

 1870 ; one, Wheaton Aston, Jan., 1901 ; one in a collection 

 at Wyeley Grove." 



Mr. A. G. Leigh reports that one was found dead at Hands- 

 worth, Birmingham, on February 3rd. 



Shropshire. — Mr. H. E. Forrest writes : " One was seen 

 on the Severn at Melverley on February 1st, the following day 

 one was caught alive on the road near Wem, whilst another 

 was seen swimming and diving in the river beneath one of 

 the bridges in Shrewsbury, eventualh'^ Ayhig off down stream. 

 On the 5th one was brought to a local taxidermist from Cres- 

 sage — possibly the same bird." 



Mr. A. G. Leigh reports one from Bridgnorth on 

 February 5th. 



Gloucestershire. — One is reported from Cirencester as 

 caught in a garden bj^ the river on February 2nd {Field, 

 10.11.1912). 



Hertfordshire. — Mr. T. A. Coward tells me that Mr. F. J. 

 Stubbs reported one to him from Tring on February 4th. 



'^Surrey. — One is reported as picked up alive on Ford Manor 

 Estate on February 2nd {Field, 10.11.1912). 



Keisit. — '• One was picked up en the shore at Dungeness on 

 January 24th, and one at L'lcombe and another at SnodJand 

 during the frost." (X. F. Ticehurst.) 



Sussex. — " One was picked up at Littlehampton on January 

 23rd." (N. F. Ticehurst.) 



Specimens reported in November and December, 1911 (c/. 

 supra, pp. 230 and 252) can hardly be regarded as having any 

 connection with the present movement. — H.F.W. 



SLAVONIAN GREBES IN MONTGOMERYSHIRE 

 AND SHROPSHIRE. 



Mr. W. Hampson informs me that on Februar^^ 6th, 1912, his 

 son shot two Grebes on Lake Vyrnwy of a species unknown 

 to him oi the keepers. Another was shot on the same lake 

 by Mr. P. M. Evans on February 21st. They were sent for 

 preservation to Mr. F. Coburn, Birmingham, who identified 



