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Correspondence, Notes, etc.



CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC.



BIRDS OBSERVED NEAR POOLEWE, N.B., DURING APRIL, 1903.


Through the courtesy of Mrs. Mowbray Cliarrington, we are enabled

to present to our readers a list of the species observed by her brother-in-

law, Mr. O. Mackenzie, at his place Inverewe, Poolewe, Ross-shire, during



April last:—


Dotterel.


Ring Dotterel.


Lapwing.


Turnstone.


Oyster Catcher.


Dunlin.


Purple Sandpiper.


Knot.


Common Sandpiper.


Redshank.


Greenshank.


Bar-tailed Godwit.


Curlew.


Whimbrel.


Arctic Tern.


Black-headed Gull.


Common or Winter Gull.


Herring Gull.


Lesser Black-backed Gull.


Great Black-backed Gull.

Glaucous Gull.


Iceland Gull.


Kittiwake.


Great Skua.


Arctic or Richardson’s Skua.

Manx Shearwater.


Storm Petrel.


Razorbill.


Common Guillemot.


Ringed or Bridled Guillemot.

Black Guillemot.


Rotche or Little Auk. ’


Puffin.


Great Northern Diver.

Black-tliroated Diver.

Red-throated Diver.


Slavonian Grebe.


Dabchick or Little Grebe.

Cormorant.


Green Cormorant, Shag, or Scart.

Gan net or Solan Goose.


Heron.


Grey Lag-Goose.



Brent Goose.


Whooper or Wild Swan.

Sheld Duck or .Sheldrake.

Mallard or Wild Duck.

Pintail.


Teal.


Wigeon.


Pochard.


Scaup.


Tufted Duck.


Golden Plve.


Long-tailed Duck.


Eider Duck.


Common Scoter.

Goosander.


Red-breasted Merganser.

Smew (Red-headed).

Golden Eagle.

White-tailed or Sea Eagle.

Osprey.


Peregrine Falcon.


Merlin.


Kestrel.


Sparrowliawk.


Kite.


Buzzard.


Hen Harrier.


Tawny or Brown Owl.

Long-eared Owl.

Short-eared Owl.


White or Barn Owl.

and


Golden Oiiole.



Seventy-five species, or, strictly '

speaking, seventy - four species

with the Bridled Guillemot fUria

troile, var. ringvia) thrown in—

truly a goodly list. The occurrence

of the Golden Oriole so far North

should be specially noted.—R.P.



IDENTIFICATION OF BIRD.


Sir,—I should like to identify a pair of birds I got the other day; I

was told they were brought from Africa, and that they are Weavers.

They are larger than the usual Weavers, with longish black beaks, the



