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I think we may consider the weight o£ evidence in this de- 

 scription to be at least suggestive of the occurrence of 

 Coracias indicus in Norfolk in 1664). 



Yours &c.. 



Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincohisbire, JoHN CordeaUX. 



Oct. 9, 1890. 



Sir, — On the 11th of September last a Pectoral Sandpiper 

 ■j— {Tringa maculata) was shot on Breydon Water, Great Yar- 

 mouth, by a tourist, who forwarded it in the flesh to Mr. 

 Southwell for identification, through an amateur birdstutfer. 



On the 12th Sept. two more were shot in the same locality, 

 on the marshes adjoining Breydon, by Mr. F. Smith, but 

 one of them, being only wounded, was not recovered till the 

 following day. All three specimens are in immature plu- 

 mage. The last two proved on dissection to be a male 

 and female, which were nicely mounted by Mr. Lowne, 

 naturalist, Yarmouth, in whose shop I saw them shortly 

 after they wei-e killed. 



Strange to say, the first example of this Sandpiper re- 

 corded as having been obtained in Great Britain was killed 

 on the same piece of water on the 17th of October, 1830, 

 since which several others have been procured in that neigh- 

 bourhood {vide Yarrell, vol. iii, pp. 368, 369). 



Yours &c., 



Herringfleet Hall, Lowestoft, E. A. BuTLER, Lt.-Col. 



Oct. 21, 1890. 



Sir, — In the last number of 'The Ibis ' Dr. Giinther has 

 pointed out a very peculiar modification, of the covering of 

 the heel in very young Wrynecks {lynx torquilla), the skin 

 of that part being greatly thickened and forming a pro- 

 minent pad, the surface of which is studded with obtusely 

 conical tubercles. This is not an isolated fact, as the same 

 thing is found in young Capitonidse. Lieut. GoflSn, in the 

 ' Museum des Pays-Bas,' Buccones, p. 16 (note), after having 

 noticed that the young birds of the genus Megalriema have 

 the bristles at the base of the bill longer than in the adult 



