294 BRITISH BIRDS. 



in Mr. W. E. de Winton's duck-decoy at Orielton, 



Pembrokeshire, on December 13th, 1909. 

 This ring was kindly forwarded to me by the Editor of the 

 " Field," to whom Mr. de Winton had sent it. On sending 

 the ring to Sir Richard Graham he identified it as one of his, 

 and gave me the above particulars. Sir Richard Graham 

 tells me that he rings each spring many ducks, and finds that 

 a large proportion reared at Netherby return there to breed. 

 Many of these birds must be shot in the winter, and I am 

 hopeful that Sir Richard Graham will in future use a ring 

 with a full address, so that really useful results may be 

 obtained from his marking. At present the want of address 

 has resulted in his hearing of only one other of his ringed 

 birds being obtained at a distance from Netherby, though 

 nearly a thousand have been ringed ! It is practically 

 useless to mark birds with a ring bearing an insufficient address. 

 Few people will take the trouble to communicate to the papers 

 regarding such a ring, and even if the recovery is notified to 

 a newspaper the chances of the record being seen by anyone 

 who recognises the mark are slender. I have now information 

 regarding the recovery of the following birds insufficiently 

 marked, and should be greatly obliged if any reader can help 

 me in discovering by whom they were marked : — Common 

 Snipe, marked (metal band) 112.1906 ; Woodcock, marked 

 (brass ring) H.H., 1907.3 ; Rock-Dove, marked (aluminium 

 ring) W. B., 20.1908. 



H. F. W. 



ADDITIONS TO THE BOOTH MUSEUM. 



The authorities in charge of the Booth Museum at Brighton 

 have recently issued, under the editorship of Mr. A. F. Griffith, 

 a supplement to the third edition of the " Catalogue " of the 

 collection. This consists of a description of a few of Booth's 

 birds that were not included in that edition, together with a 

 considerable list of additions made to the collection during the 

 last fifteen years. Chief among these are the Borrer and Monk 

 collections purchased in 1901 and 1905 respectively, and the 

 collection of the late Bishop Wilberforce presented by his 

 son in 1903. These three collections are all rich in local 

 Sussex birds, and contain many of the rare and unique 

 specimens recorded in Borrer's " Birds of Sussex." Several of 

 these specimens had already been mentioned in the 

 third edition of the " Catalogue," but others do not appear 

 to have been elsewhere recorded, and so were not 

 included in the serial paper of " Additions " published in 



