134 BRITISH BIRDS. 



to those who do not possess the first edition. We fear that 

 someone bouglit tliese eggs as veritable Scaup's, for they 

 fetched £2 7s. 6d. at the Stark sale in 1902. We have to 

 thank Messrs. A. H. Evans, J. A. Harvie-Brown, and Heatley 

 Noble for having also drawn our attention to this error. — 

 H. F. W. & N. F. T.] 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE COMMON SCOTER IN 

 SCOTLAND. 



As I have elsewhere pointed out, the distribution of the 

 Common Scoter in Scotland is pecuhar, e.g., Caithness and 

 part of North Scotland, or " the Pentland area," lo\^'-lying 

 lochs of the flow-lands ; the high-lying mountain lochs 

 of certain remoter portions of Inverness-shire along the 

 direction of the Great Fault of the Caledonian Canal ; [the 

 Isle of Tiree, uncertain ?] ; and Ireland, as shown above on 

 p. 86. J. A. Harvie-Brown. 



PALLAS'S SAND-GROUSE IN YORKSHIRE 

 AND KENT. 



During the first week of June last three Sand-Grouse 

 {Syrrhaptes paradoxus) were observed in a field of young 

 corn in the eastern portion of Cleveland. Shortly afterwards 

 one of them was picked up, dead ; and I have had an 

 opportunity of examining this specimen, which is a male in 

 excellent plumage. The other two birds were seen at intervals 

 until the middle of June, when they both disappeared. 



T. H. Nelson. 



On July 4th last I obtained a satisfactory view of three 

 Pallas's Sand-Grouse on the sand-hills north of Littlestone. 



H. G. Alexander. 



GREEN-BACKED GALLINULE IN NORFOLK. 



On June 19th, and for a fortnight previously, a Green-backed 

 Gallinule {Porphyrio smaragdonotus) was seen at Horsey by 

 three different marshmen, one of whom recognised the bird 

 from having seen a locally killed specimen some years 

 previously, and the other two men's independent description 

 was unmistakable. M. C. H. Bird. 



ABNORMAL EGGS OF THE RINGED PLOVER. 



On June 18th, 1908, I found on a lake island in Ireland a 

 clutch of four abnormal eggs of (presumably) the Ringed 

 Plover {JLgialitis hiaticola). In colour they w^ere of a hght 

 greenish-blue, and A^ithout markings. The surface of the 

 shells \\'as somewhat rough, and with, only one of them was it 



