VOL. XI. ] NOTES. 119 
BLACK-TAILED GODWITS IN NORFOLK. 
A FLock of eight to ten Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa 
limosa) has been on the Salthouse Marshes, near Cley, for some 
weeks. I first heard of them on March 9th, 1917, when I 
believe one bird was obtained but I did not see it myself. On 
July 16th I received one and was told that there were six 
or seven more, and a fortnight after this date I heard that 
the birds were still there. This is the first time I have had 
a Black-tailed Godwit from this district for preservation. 
H. N. PASHLEY. 
LITTLE GUIL IN LANCASHIRE. 
Mr. W. H. HeatHcore informs me that, whilst on a launch in 
the Ribble Estuary, in September, 1916, he had under 
observation, for some time, a Little Gull (Larus minutus). 
This makes the tenth record for Lancashire. Mitchell, in his 
Birds of Lancashire, mentions only four, Saunders adding a 
fifth in the second edition. In British Birds, Vol, VII., p. 235, 
I added a sixth, and in an editorial the 7th and 8th were 
recorded, whilst Mr. F. W. Smalley, in Vol. VIII., p. 199, 
recorded the ninth. H. W. Rosprnson. 
ABNORMAL GOLDEN Eacir’s Eaes.—-At the meeting of 
the British Ornithologists’ Club on June 13, 1917, Mr. R. W. 
Chase exhibited a clutch of three eggs of the Golden Hagle 
(Aguila chrysaétus), taken in Sutherland, measuring 88°3 x 52°8, 
80°5 x 52°5 and 815 x548mm. Only one of the three eggs 
showed traces of reddish-brown markings. Clutches of three 
are of rare occurrence in Scotland, though Professor Newton 
has recorded four sets, three of which were taken from the 
same nest in consecutive years. The average measurement 
of 100 Scotch eggs is 76°7x59'4mm., so that the eggs 
exhibited were not only exceedingly elongated in shape but 
also unusually narrow. 
CiurcH or Dwarr Ecos oF BLack-HEADED GULL.—-At the 
same meeting Mr. Chase also showed a set of three dwarf 
eges of Black-headed Gull (Larus r. ridibundus) taken in 
Cumberland, which measured 34 26°8, 345 25:7, and 
35'8 x 26:5 mm., all of which were infertile. Dwarf eggs 
are not uncommonly found in clutches together with normal 
eggs, but a clutch of dwarf eggs is very unusual. The late 
Major H. Trevelyan, however, took a set of three blue eggs 
in Ireland in 1908 (cf. Br. Birds, I1., p. 64), but gives the 
measurements in inches. In millimetres they would be 
35°5 X27°9, 40°6 x 30:4 and 43:1 x 30-4, all much below 
the average, but larger than Mr. Chase’s set. 
