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HoNEY-BuzzARD [Pemis apivorus). 

 An immature male was shot near Ardee, co. Louth, on 

 October 13th, 1908, and, being only winged, was forwarded 

 by its captor to the Dublin Zoological Gardens where, however, 

 it died within a week of its arrival. 



OspnEY {Pandion haliaetus). 

 On November 1st, 1908, a bird in immature plumage flew 

 on board a fishing-boat coming to Wexford, and was captured, 

 but died soon after reaching the shore. I examined the bird 

 and found it thin, although the plumage was in good order. 



Buffon's Skua {Stercorarius parasiticus). 

 A bird in first year's plumage was shot in a wood bordering 

 Lough Neagh, co. Antrim, on November 18th, 1908. 



Great Northern Diver m Summer Plumage in October. 

 A very large specimen of Colymhus glacialis in full summer 

 plumage was shot on the River Moy, co. Sligo, on October 

 31st, 1908. The bird showed no trace whatever of winter 

 plumage, and w^as in fact in better plumage than birds I have 

 examined in the month of May. W. J. Williams. 



ALBINISTIC VARIETY OF THE REDWING. 

 Early in November we received from Filey, Yorkshire, an 

 albinistic variety of the Redwing. This bird was pale cream- 

 coloured all over, the bases of the feathers being, however, 

 grey. Its beak was yellowish, and the legs and feet were very 

 pale brown. We sent it to Mr. Eagle Clarke, who identified 

 it as T Urdus iliacus, and we have presented the bird to the 

 Royal Scottish Museum. 



Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. 



THE NORTHERN MARSH-TITMOUSE IN ENGLAND. 



A NEW BRITISH BIRD. 



An undoubted example of the Northern Marsh-Tit {Parus 

 horealis De Selys) was shot at Tetbury, Gloucestershire, in 

 March, 1907, by Mr. J. H. Paddock, who presented it to the 

 British Museum. I had the pleasure of exhibiting this bird 

 at the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club held on 

 November 18th, 1908 (c/. Bull. B.O.C.,XXm.,^. 34). In 

 January, 1908, I observed a small lot of four or five" Marsh- 

 Tits, undoubtedly of this species, at Welwyn, Herts. My 

 attention was first attracted by their Linnet-like song, com- 

 posed of a number of broken ascending notes, entirely different 

 to the call of the common Marsh-Tit. I watched the birds 

 at very close range, and had no doubt in my own mind that, 

 they were Scandinavian Marsh-Tits, the white sides of the 



