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(Tetrao tetrix\ a few hazel grouse (Tetrao bonasia), and willow grouse 

 (Lagopus saliceti). Very few wild-fowl (Anatidce). 



November z6th. Received three snipes, five jack snipes, and a wild 

 duck from Lilford. 



December yth. Began corrections and addenda for Dresser's 

 Birds of Europe. Received three snipes from Lilford. 



December gth. Heard from G. Hunt that he had killed eleven 

 wild ducks with one shot with the big gun which I gave him, also 

 that there are hardly any fieldfares (Turdus pilaris) in the country. 

 Leo sent a skin of hybrid, I think second cross between Reeves's 

 (Phasianus reevesi) and common pheasant. This bird has a trace 

 of white neck collar, I believe it is from Suffolk, a descendant of the 

 old male Reeves's cock pheasant which I gave to Nat Barnardiston 

 years ago; this bird met his fate lately after propagating a numerous 

 hybrid race. 



December ioth. I received a letter from Rev. G. E. Morris, 

 Rector of Middleton Scriven, near Bridgnorth, Salop, enclosing head 

 and wing of a petrel picked up in that neighbourhood, about which 

 he had written to the Standard (vide Standard, December 8th, 1881, 

 p. 2), and which I think is not, as he supposes, the stormy petrel 

 (Thalassidroma pelagica), but a young fork-tailed petrel (Thalassidroma 

 leucorrhoa}. 



December nth. I make out from Dresser's book that the petrel 

 above mentioned is a specimen of Leach's or the fork-tailed petrel. 



BRIGHTON 



December 2$rd. Went to Swaysland, who showed us a pair of 

 fork-tailed petrels recently obtained near this place, also two birds 

 which look like hybrids between greenfinch (Fringilla Moris) and 

 brown linnet (Fringilla cannabind) ; of this Swaysland says he has 

 obtained many specimens. He also had some good specimens of grey 

 redstart (Rutirilla cairii), to my mind a very distinct bird from black 

 redstart (Rutirilla titys), which often turns up here, and of which 

 Swaysland had several specimens. 



