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is in skins, but not in life. The bill of the adult female i& 

 also never correctly described, and Mr. Millais again errs 

 in giving it (p. 80) as the same as in the male but paler, viz. 

 olive-green. 



The colour of the bill of the adult female shortly after 

 death is pale mauve or bluish-grey from its base to the base 

 of the nostrils, and this colour also very soon disappears. 



H. W. Robinson. 



GREEN SANDPIPER IN PERTHSHIRE. 



The Green Sandpiper {Tringa ocrophus) is scarce in 

 northern Scotland, and it is therefore worth recording 

 that I saw one on the north shore of Loch Rannoch, on 

 August 5th, 1913. The date is rather earl}^, but Saunders 

 {Manual, p. 609) states that individuals occur even in July. 

 I examined the bird several times through field-glasses, 

 and was struck by its large size, extremely white under- 

 parts, and the absence of the jerk}" motion of the tail so 

 characteristic of the Common Sandpiper. 



Clifford Borrek. 



BLACK-TAILED GODWIT IN SUSSEX. 



An example of the Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) 

 was obtained at Pevensey, on Julv 12th, 1913. I examined 

 it in the flesh on the 13th and found it to be an adult female. 

 Black-tailed Godwits do not as a rule put in an appearance 

 here before August or Sej)tember, and then only on very 

 rare occasions. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



LITTLE CRAKE IN SUSSEX. 



On July 19th, 1913, a specimen of the Little Crake {Porzana 

 parva) was caught by a dog at Bopeep, St. Leonards, and 

 was seen b}' me in the flesh on the 20th, when it proved 

 to be a female. A second example, a male, was shot in 

 the old brickfield, at St. Leonards, on July 25th. Probably 

 these birds were a pair. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



MOORHEN CARRYING HER YOUTS^G ON HER BACK. 



On July 5th, 1913, in company with Mr. Bryan, I was passing 

 a large pond near Cheadle, Staffordshire, when a half-gro^-n 

 Moorhen swam out from the bank and was joined by what 

 appeared to be the mother-bird, and the two swam about, 

 ten yards or so from where we stood. The parent -bird dived 

 several times, and some minutes aftenvards we observed 

 something rise up on her back, and this turned out to be a 

 still youngfer bird, only a few days old, and as the pond was 



