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THE YELLOW-BILLED DIVER. 
(CoLymMBus ADAMSI.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List, 
(which speaks of it as a “species,” but adds that Dr. 
Coues regards it a variety of C. Glacialis). The List 
regards the occurrence to have been, doudtfully, that of 
‘Adamsi.’ 
With reference to the bird shot at Pakefield, Sussex 
in 1852, Mr. J. H. Gurney wrote to Mr. Sclater that it 
was shot from the beach at that place; and taken to Mr. 
Scales, a gentleman at Pakefield, who sent it to Thirtle 
the bird-stuffer; and ultimately gave it to Mr. Gurney. 
It is not admitted to place, and portrait by Saunders 
who seems to share the doubt cast on the occurrence by 
the B.O.U.; and points out that the immature ‘Glacialis’ 
has frequently the pale horn coloured bill. 
Admitted by Seebohm, 
who, after recording the Pakefield bird, says that ‘a second 
British example” was, on the authority of Mr. Hancock, 
shot on the coast of Northumberland ; and is in the New- 
castle Museum. 
(Since writing the above, Wr. H. Saunders has ad- 
matted ‘Adamsi’ in his preface to Vol. 3, Yarrell’s British, 
Birds.) 
BRUNNICH’S GUILLEMOT. 
(Uria BruNICHIL.) 
Admitted to bea rare straggler to the Northern Isles 
and Coasts of Scotland dy the B.O. Union. 
