256 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
BEWICK’s SWAN (page 159). Mr. L. Jones writes us that 
on October 27th, 1897, during very cold weather, he shot a 
Bewick’s Swan which was passing in a southerly direction. 
PocHArRD (page 167). On January 28th, 1900, Oldham 
saw eleven Pochards at Redes Mere. They were diving for 
food in shallow water near the bank. On March 11th, 1900, 
Mr. F. 8S. Graves saw a flock of twenty of these birds on the 
same water. 
GREY PHALAROPE (page 207). In November 1898, Mr. 
L. Jones shot a Grey Phalarope near Hilbre Island, the only 
example he has ever met with in that locality. 
FORK-TAILED PETREL (page 253). A Fork-tailed Petrel 
was picked up beneath the telegraph wires on the railway at 
Adswood, near Stockport, on the 13th or 14th of November 
1899. It is now in the collection of Mr. J. Hamilton Leigh. 
MANX SHEARWATER (page 254). Mr. J. H. Leigh has a 
Manx Shearwater which was found alive, but disabled by a 
gunshot wound, on the Stockport sewage-farm, in September 
1399. 
BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL. 
MOTACILLA FLAVA, Linneeus. 
Mr. R. Newstead, writing to us under date March 29th, 
1900, states that he has just examined a male Blue-headed 
Wagtail, in the collection of Mr. J. H. Stock, which was 
shot on the lawn at White Hall, Tarporley, in 1898, This 
species, rarely observed in the West of England, has not 
been previously recorded for Cheshire. 
