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place, and has been given to the Albert Memorial Museum, 

 Exeter. T. P. Backhouse. 



GLOSSY IBIS IN HEREFORDSHIRE. 



I HAVE seen at a Shrewsbury taxidermist's an immature 

 Glossy Ibis which was shot on the morning of September 2nd, 

 1920, by Mr. Bernard Carrodus at Castle-End, Lea, near 

 Ross-on-Wye. The species is new to the Herefordshire 

 avifauna. H. E. Forrest. 



[Mr. E. Cambridge Phillips {Vict. Hist, of Hereford, I., 

 p. 140) records one shot about the third week of December 

 1902, at Winforton, and a second bird is said to have been 

 seen in the neighbourhood. The above record is therefore 

 the second definite occurrence.^ — F.C.R.J.] 



BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HERONRIES. 



In the recently published work on The Birds of Buckingham- 

 shire and the Tring Reservoirs, by Hartert and Jourdain, it 

 is stated that Mr. E. Hollis discovered a heronry of about 

 a dozen nests near Gayhurst, in March 1919. The following 

 additional information has been kindly supplied to me by 

 Mr. Carlisle, the owner of Gayhurst. He says that Herons 

 {Ardea c. cinerea) have bred at this heronry to his personal 

 knowledge for forty years and he understands that Gayhurst 

 Wood has been occupied by them for certainly not less than 

 one hundred years. There are twenty-five to thirty nests, 

 all in oak trees. When the ground gets foul, which occurs 

 about once in ten years, they move a short distance to another 

 part of the same wood. Henry L. Cochrane. 



BITTERN IN SURREY. 



On February 14th, 1919, I was shown a Common Bittern 

 {B. stellar is) which had been shot the previous day — in error 

 — near Cranleigh Village. I was told that for some nights 

 before this an " unearthly " noise had been heard. 



Alex. Hope Walker. 



shovelers in surrey. 



I CAN fully endorse Mr. W. E. Glegg's remark {antea, p. 118) 

 on the unusual appearance of the Shoveler {Spatula clypeata) 

 in Surrey during the summer. From observations extending 

 over a number of years, I find that all my records are for the 

 months of March, April, October and November. 



Perhaps the details of my own notes tabulated below will 

 be of interest. 



