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Keswick Hall, Norwich, 

 Feb, 6tli, 1891. 

 SiR^ — Sir Thomas Browne, in describing the Roller as 

 having " an eye of green,''' probably meant a lustre of green. 

 Shakespeare says : — 



" The ground, indeed, is tawny. 

 With an eye of green in't." — {The Tempest.) 



Taken in this sense^ his description is not inapplicable to 

 the tail of Coracias garrulus. 



Yours &c., 



J. H. GURNEY. 



Firenze, 

 Feb. 15th, 1891. 



Sir, — In reply to your inquiries I may now say that at 

 last I have been able to examine the Limosa figured and 

 described by Martorelli {cf. Ibis, 1891, p. 133). I have 

 compared it with eight specimens of L. uropygialis collected 

 in New Zealand and Eastern Asia (Japan), and find that it 

 differs from all of them in the well-known characters, whilst 

 it agrees perfectly with five specimens of L. rufa (Italian), 

 except in its remarkably long bill. 



But you know how the length of the bill varies in these 

 Limicola, and in Martorelli's specimen there is a plain cause 

 for abnormal development, which Martorelli does not men- 

 tion in his paper nor figure in his otherwise excellent plate. 

 There is an old extensive fracture at the base of the upper 

 mandible, caused by a gunshot wound, which had healed. 



In conclusion, I have not the least doubt that Martorelli's 



Limosa from Foggia is merely a L. rufa with an abnormally 



long bill. 



Yours &c., 



Henry H. Giglioli. 



British Consulate, Mogador. 



Feb. 5th, 1891. 



Sir, — I shot a fine specimen of the Brent Goose, Bernicla 



f- brent a, adult male in good plumage, on a bit of marsh near 



the sea, about a mile and a half south of this town, last 



Monday afternoon, Feb. 2nd. It was alone, but on the pre- 



