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season, was Fossdyke Wash, Lincolnshire (Pennant). The 
Wood Sandpiper, usually a spring and autumn migrant, is 
known to have remained throughout the summer and nested. 
In addition to the nest found by Mr. Hancock (p. 47) another 
was taken in a birch-plantation by a small loch-side in Elgin- 
shire, 23rd May, 1853, and the eggs identified by Mr. Bond 
(cf. Thurnall, ‘ Naturalist,’ 1853, p. 254). 
Devon may be added to the counties in which the nest of 
the Dunlin (p. 49) has been found (cf. Moore, Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1837, p. 322). 
The Crane (p. 54) is very rare in Shetland. A long ac- 
count and description of two procured there in July 1865 will 
be found in the ‘ Zoologist,’ 1865, pp. 9767-9772. A young 
Bittern (p. 56) taken at Ranworth, Norfolk, is figured in the 
‘Zoologist,’ 1846, p. 1321. On the subject of British Wild 
Geese, the reader may be referred to a paper by Mr. Arthur 
Strickland, read before the Nat. Hist. Section of the British 
Association at Leeds, 24th Sept. 1858, and published in the 
‘ Naturalist,’ 1858, p. 271, wherein the author says that the 
Grey Lag Goose never was a migratory species in this country, 
but permanently resided and bred in the “carrs” of York- 
shire, and probably in the fens of Lincolnshire; and although 
long since banished from these places, it still breeds in the 
Western Isles of Scotland. As to this see also Gray, ‘ Birds 
of West of Scotland,’ p. 339. 
While on the subject of wild fowl, a passing allusion may 
be made to a couple of essays by two very practical observers 
on the change of plumage in Ducks and other birds,—the 
first by the late Charles Waterton (Essays in Nat. Hist., Ist 
series, p. 196), the second by Mr. Blyth (Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1837, pp. 259-3800). A full and very interesting account of 
decoy-ponds, as worked in Norfolk, will be found in Lubbock’s 
‘Fauna of Norfolk,’ pp. 94-110; and a capital description 
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