338 THE NATURALIST. 



Spotted Redshank {Totanus fuscus). In August last a specimen of 

 this bird was shot at Hornby, near Catterick, by Mr. Savage, of that place. 



Green Sandpiper (Totanus ocliropus). A specimen of this bird was 

 shot by Mr. J. Roper, at Ravensworth, in September last. 



Spotted Crake [Gallinula porzana). Early one morning in October, 

 1803, a mutilated specimen of this bird was picked up by a railway guard 

 on the Richmond branch, between the Dalton and Moulton stations. It 

 had evidently been making a passage during the night, and having struck 

 against the telegraph wires thus came by its death. I may here mention 

 that through this cause a great many birds are destroyed on Bowes Moor, 

 a large tract of moorland near Barnard Castle which is crossed by the 

 telegraph wires, and that as many as eleven grouse, together with other 

 birds, have been picked up dead at one time. 



Goosander (Mergus merganser). This bird, which only visits us dur- 

 ino" the severe frosts, appeared more plentiful last year than usual. A 

 beautiful male specimen was shot by William Newton, gamekeeper to R. 

 M. Jaques, Esq., at the same pool in the river Swale, and in precisely the 

 same spot as that where the Osprey alluded to above was killed; it was on 

 the 15tli of January. It was shot while attempting to swallow a Barbel 

 a foot long, which however proved too ihucli for him as it was found to be 

 tightly wedged into his throat and required some little force to remove 

 it. This bird is now in my possession, admirably set up by Mr. W. J. 

 Milligan, taxidermist, of this town. It weighed five pounds six ounces. 

 About the same time two more birds of this species were killed in this 

 immediate neighbourhood, and on the 5th of March Mr. Savage captured 

 two female specimens in the pipe at the decoys at Hornby, which he sent 

 alive to the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's Park. There was 

 another specimen in the pipe, a large male, but this bird made a charge 

 at Mr. Savage with his bill and powerful wings, and thus escaped from him. 



Biclimond, January 31sf, 1865. 



NOTES ON NORFOLK ENTOMOLOGY— LEPIDOPTERA. Part L 



By T. E. Gunn. 



At the commencement of these few observations I deem it necessary 

 to say a few words by way of introduction to the reader. The county of 



