104 lilUTISH BIRDS. [vol. xiv. 



Mr. A. D. Lawric {Field, November 3rd and 29tli, 1900), who 

 mentions young hatched on October 2gth, and also during 

 the last week of November, 1900. — F.C.R.J.] 



LATE AUTUMN WADERS IN NORFOLK. 

 Ox October 27th, 1920, I was out with Edward Ramm, the 

 well-known gunner, near Blakeney in Norfolk. We identified 

 the Little Stint (£'.m.wzm///a), Curlew-Sandpiper {E .ferruginea) , 

 Dusky Redshank {T. erythropus), and Ruff {Ph. pugnax), all 

 of which are unusual after the month of September. It is 

 worth adding that the Dusky Redshank has been unusually 

 plentiful this year in north Norfolk. Not only have one or 

 two frequented the levels ali through August, September and 

 October, but small flocks were noticed in the early autumn. 

 For instance, four were shot out of a flock of six near Blakeney 

 in the first week of September ; and a week or two later Ramm 

 and I watched five feeding together for some time near the 

 same place. The swift, hurried manner of feeding is very 

 distinctive and noticeable, and so far as I know, unlike that 

 of any other wading bird. Some of the birds I saw almost 

 immersed themselves as they dashed here and there through 

 the shallow water. Clifford Borrer. 



BLACK-WINGED STILT IN WIGTOWNSHIRE. 

 On October ryth, 1920, I observed a Black-winged Stilt {H. 

 himantopiis) on the upper shore of Loch Ryan, Wigtownshire. 

 It was an adult bird with a pure white head and neck, and was 

 not wild — it settled within sixty yards of the nearest gun — • 

 and I got my keeper's telescope on to it for some time. When 

 disturbed by some cows coming along it flew off out to nearer 

 low-water mark. Later on it rose again and went away at a 

 fair height to the S.S.E. Its distinctive call first attracted 

 attention. The last ones I saw and observed closely were 

 on the Lake at Belah, not far from Gaza, Palestine. 



M. Portal. 



BLACK TERN IN LANCASHIRE. 



With regard to Mr. R. A. H. Coombe's note of a Black Tern 

 {Hydrodielidon n. nigra) in Lancashire on May 28th, 1920 

 {antea, p. .141), I might add that the species is now a regular 

 spring migrant on the southern part of the Lancashire coast 

 in small numbers. H. W. Robinson. 



BLACK-HEADED GULLS IN DELAMERE FOREST, 



CHESHIRE. 

 Mr. F. a. Bruton records {antea, p. 95) the return this year 

 of the Black-headed Gulls {Larus r. ridibundus) to their old 



