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Brent Goose {Bernida hreiita). — On June 3rd I saw a party 

 of nine of these birds swimming about on an inland reservoir near 

 Wynyard They were not excessively wild, as the keeper and I 

 could get within a hundred yards of them before they made away. 

 Only one bird was seen on the ith, and it also departed during 

 the night. 



Sheld Duck {Tadorna cornuta). — About half a dozen pairs 

 of these conspicuous birds bred between Marske and Seaton 

 Carew this year. 



^hoxaW&x {Spatula dypeata). — Three or four pairs of shoveller 

 bred in the vicinity of the Tees-mouth. Several young birds were 

 shot in September. 



Pintail {Dafila acuta). — A. fine drake flew overhead, just out 

 of shot, when on the South Gare Breakwater on February 16th. 



Coot [Fulica atra). — Although rare in Cleveland as a breeder, 

 perhaps owing to lack of suitable lakes and ponds, the coot is a 

 fairly common, though local, breeder in S. E. Durham. I saw a 

 nest containing 13 eggs on May 28th near Trimdon, which the 

 keeper assured me were the laying of one pair only. 



Lapwing ( Vanellus vulgaris). — An immense arrival on October 

 27th. From 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. flocks from twenty to a hundred 

 in number were pouring in continually. In the morning thousands 

 of birds could be seen coming in in the space of half an hour. 



Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius). — Two obtained just 

 after the great storm of November 13th between Marske and the 

 river mouth. 



Red decked Phalarope {Phalaropus hijperhoreus) — An 

 immature bird shot on a pond near the Golf House, Seaton Carew, 

 by Mr. L. Burton, on September 6th. As usual the bird was 

 ridiculously tame. 



Great Snipe {Gallinaqo major). — I recognised a bird of this 

 species in the window of M. Chambers, Marton Road, and could 

 get no better information on enquiry than that the bird had been 

 shot on September 1st, or thereabouts, somewhere near the river 

 mouth. 



Jack Snipe {Gallinngo (jallinula). — One shot at Tees-mouth 

 as early as September 14th. 



Ruff and Reeve {Machetes pugnax). — An immature rufif was 

 obtained on August 26th at Tees-mouth, and two immature reeves 

 in early September at the Yorkshire side. 



Spotted Redshank {Tetanus fuscus). — One shot on August 

 22nd at the mouth, which is in young dress. 



