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alive to Messrs. Sheals, the local taxidermists, where I 

 had the pleasure of examining it. The bird, evidently 

 suffering, was mercifully chloroformed, and is now being 

 mounted. It is an immature bird; its stomach con- 

 tained some feathers and bones of a Skylark. This 

 constitutes the third record for the county. 



Wm. C. Wright. 



RED-FOOTED FALCON IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 



A fine adult male Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus) 



passed through my hands in May, 1909. It was shot in 



Cambridgeshire. Wm . Farren. 



BITTERN IN SUSSEX. 

 A Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) was put up by my son on the 

 Crumbles, Eastbourne, on December 21st, 1909. Though he 

 had his gun with him he wisely forebore to shoot the bird, 

 which I hope is still at large. jj p Molineux. 



GLOSSY IBISES IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, IRELAND 

 AND YORKSHIRE. 



On October 21st, 1909, I received a Glossy Ibis (Plegadis 

 falcinellus) in the flesh from Holywell, on the Ouse, near St. 

 Ives, where it was shot while flying very high a day or two 

 before. It was a male, in good condition, and as there were a 

 few dirty white feathers in the head and neck I presume it was 

 immature, although it had distinctly glossy plumage, which 

 Howard Saunders says immature birds have not. Possibly 

 this bird with glossy plumage, and light feathers in head and 

 neck, is an adult in winter- plumage. 



Wm. Farren. 



Dr. R. Archer Nesbitt writes me that a Glossy Ibis (Plegadis 

 falcinellus) was shot on the 15th of October, 1909, in a 

 swamp at Ballyfrenis, near Donaghadee ; my correspondent 

 also states, " Sex unknown ; the neck was more or less speckled 

 with grey feathers " ; it is presumed therefore that it was an 

 immature bird. 



This constitutes the second record for the county, the first 

 having been obtained in September, 1906, near Belfast, on 

 the co. Down side of the Lough. 



Wm. C. Wright. 

 Two Glossy Ibises were shot on the Lambwath in Holderness, 

 Yorkshire, one (unsexed) on October 19th, and the other (male) 

 on November 10th, 1909 ; both were immature. Another was 

 seen but escaped. (E. W. Wade, Nat., 1910, p. 28.) 



