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stay of nine weeks is also worth mentioning. On my two 

 last visits (October 15th and November 5th) I did not see 

 an5^ but as these sheets of water are very extensive they 

 may have been on another reservoir ; as, however, shooting 

 had started the probability is that they had been driven off. 



William E. Glegg. 



[Although Mr. Miller Christy in the Birds of Essex gives 

 only one specific instance of the occurrence of the Cormorant 

 inland in Essex, both here and in the Vict. Hist, of Essex, I., 

 p. 245, he treats it as " occasionally met with inland after 

 severe storms." Mr. W. Bull also records an instance in 

 the Field, Jan. 10, 1920. — F.C.R.J.] 



GREEN SANDPIPER IN SURREY IN WINTER. 



On December 25th, 192 1, my brother saw a wader on one of 

 the streams of south-west Surrey, but was unable to identify 

 it. The next day we both saw it and have no doubt it was a 

 Green Sandpiper {Tringa ochropus). On the 26th we put it 

 up twice and only saw it in flight, but on the 27th we got near 

 it with glasses and watched it in brilliant sunshine feeding in 

 the shallow water. Flora Russell. 



EARLY APPEARANCE OF GLAUCOUS GULL IN 

 SUFFOLK. 



At Lowestoft Harbour on September 23rd, 1921, I saw an 

 example of the Glaucous Gull [Larus hyperboreus), a bird 

 which was getting its pale grey back but was still faintly 

 marked on the wing-coverts, being apparently in the final 

 stage before the adult plumage. It was still about on 

 October 20th. I had already seen one on September 22nd, 

 1918, and on September i8th, 1920, but the usual time for 

 the appearance of this species is not till after mid-October. 

 It seems not unreasonable to suppose that this individual 

 may have formed the habit of early wandering during its 

 first year. I will report next September if it appears in 

 adult plumage. C. E. Hamond. 



ALBINISTIC GULLS AND IVORY-GULLS. 



Lieut. -Commander C. E. Hamond informs us that a white 

 Gull came alongside his ship (H.M.S. " Ettrick ") at 7.30-8.0 

 a.m. on October 30th, 192 1, about ten miles south from the 

 Galloper Light off the Essex coast ; wind N. 4, sea 3. There 

 had been a northerly gale just a week previously. In size 

 the bird was about the same as a Kittiwake, but the wings 



