140 BlilTISH BIRDS. |vol. xiv. 



1905. April 19th. — A pair observed on Hedgecourt 

 Pond in S.E. Surre}-. 



1910. April loth. — Two drakes and four ducks seen 

 at Godstone. 



1913. November 30th. — One female on Hedgecourt Pond. 



1914. October 4th. — Two males and one female at 

 Hedgecourt, two drakes at the same place on October 

 i8th, and a pair on November 28th. 



1915. March 6th. — One drake on Frensham Little Pond. 

 1920. March 13th. — A pair observed at Frensham Little 

 Pond. 



I should perhaps mention that during the years 1916-7-8, 

 I was prevented from visiting any of the Surrey lakes from 

 which the above records were obtained. 



Howard Bentham. 



MANX SHEARWATER IN STAFFORDSHIRE. 



A MALE Manx Shearwater (Pnffinus p. puffinns) was brought 

 to me for identification on September 24th, 1920, having 

 been found alive the day before in the mouth of a rabbit-hole, 

 near Tean, Staffordshire. The bird died soon after it was 

 picked up, and on dissection proved to have been shot at 

 and wounded. The stomach contained only a very little 

 food, which consisted of fragments of a small marine 

 crustacean and a few minute bits of seaweed (fucus). This 

 appears to be the ninth recorded instance of this species 

 having been found in Staffordshire. All former occurrences, 

 except one in June 1904, were met with early in September, 

 the present instance being the latest in date. This is, no 

 doubt, accounted for by the bird being wounded and delayed 

 for some days before it was found. The general date of the 

 southward autumnal migration of the Manx Shearwater 

 from the west coasts of England and Scotland appears to 

 range from the last week in August to the first week in 

 September. John R. B. Masefield. 



[There are at least twelve definitely recorded instances 

 of the occurrence of the Manx Shearwater in Staffordshire 

 besides that given above. The June record mentioned 

 by Mr. Masefield did not take place in 1904, but in 1894. 

 (This error also occurs in Mr. Masefield's paper in the Vict. 

 Hist, of the Co., Stafford., I., p. 161.) There is also a note 

 of one killed on August 30th, 1908, in the Rep. N. Staffs. Fd. 

 Club, 1909-10, p. Ill, and another was picked up by a dog 

 on August 27th, 1917 {op. cit., 1917-18, p. 115). — F. C. R, 



JOURDAIN.] 



