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feeding ; in fact you can often, when sailing, locate a liock 

 of ducks by watching the behaviour of this Gull. 



F. W. Smalley. 



LITTLE GULL IN LANCASHIRE. 



On November 12th, 1914, a Little Gull {Lams minutus) was 

 shot off Gibraltar Point, Silverdale, by Mr. Murra}^ junior, 

 son of Mr. H. Murray, taxidermist, Garnforth. I saw the 

 bird, which was an adult female in winter plumage, just 

 after being set up, also the body and contents of the crop, 

 which appeared to consist entirely of some species of fly, 

 producing a deep purple stain on paper. This makes, I 

 believe, the eighth record of this species for Lancashire. 



F. W. Smalley. 



[Besides the five records mentioned in Mitchell and 



Saunders' Birds of Lancashire, three other records have 



been published, so that the present instance is the ninth. — 



F.C.R.J.] 



RARE BIRDS IN SUSSEX. 



Yellow-browed Warbler {Phylloscopus s. superciliosus). 

 — On October 24th, 1914, I examined in the flesh an example 

 of the Yellow-browed Warbler that had been shot at 

 Hollington the previous day. It was a female, and is the 

 first to be recorded for the county. 



White's Thrush {Turdus d. aureus). — On November 10th, 

 1914, I was shown a specimen of White's Thrush that had 

 been shot the previous day at Brede. Although a good 

 many have been obtained previously in the British Isles, 

 this is only the second record for the county {cf. sicpra, 

 p. 55). 



Wilson's Petrel {Oceanites oceanicus). — During the severe 

 gales that have been raging along the south coast during 

 the end of November and beginning of December, many 

 birds have been washed ashore, various Gulls, Puffins, 

 Guillemot, etc. Amongst others washed ashore at Bopeep, 

 St. Leonards, on December 2nd, 1914, was a specimen of 

 Wilson's Petrel. I noticed at once the length of the legs, 

 and also that the webs between the toes were of a deep 

 orange colour. The specimen was a male, and quite fresh. 



H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



Tree-Pipit in Ireland. — Mr. W. J. Williams {Irish Nat., 

 1914, p. 239) reports that on May 21st, 1914, he listened 

 for some time to a Pi])it singing in a tree nvav Portunma 

 Bridge (co. Galway) on the Shannon, and was satisfied that 



