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smaller, its weight being 19 fts., length 57 inches, and breadth 89 inches.— G. Hassell 

 {in the '■Field ') ; Bexley Street, Windsor. 



Occurrence of the Hooper at Carshallon, Surrey. — During the late frost T was in 

 my garden, and observed two wild swans flying a few yards over me, evidently with 

 the intention of alighting on the river. They passed close to me in a similar manner 

 three times, quite within shot ; but I had not my gun ready at the right moment, 

 though I had been watching for them. That they were the wild swan, and not tame- 

 bred, I could easily distinguish from their yellow and black he^ks.— Samuel Gurney ; 

 Carshalton, January, 1861. 



Occurrence of the Hooper near Brighton. — On Monday, the 7th of January, I had 

 the good luck to shoot the hooper in Poyning's Springs, where it was attracted by a 

 couple of tame swans that were gracefully sailing about in the mill-pond there. This 

 noble bird was in fine condition, and the plumage white as the driven snow : it made 

 its usual hooping or whistling noise, particularly before alighting to the tame ones. 

 It is now in the possession of Mr. Botting, of Poynings. — T. Thorncroft ; Brighton, 

 January 21, 1861. 



Occurrence of Wild Swans at Stockbridge. — Five hooper swans have been about 

 here for some time past, and three more have been shot by a keeper near this place. 

 The weight of the smallest is 17 lbs. 2 oz., the next in size 19 fbs., and the largest 

 20 fts. One of them is at present in my possession. — Reginald Wigram ; Houghton, 

 Stockbridge. 



Occurrence of Bewick's Swan (Cygnus minor) at Pagham Harbour.— 1 have a fine 

 specimen of Bewick's swan, one of three killed at Pagham Harbour a few days since. 

 — H. Pratt; 35, Duke Street, Brighton, January 15, l'861. 



Hooper and other Wildfowl killed at Southend. — At the commencement of the 

 late frost I killed a hooper here, which measured exactly 8 feet from tip to tip of the 

 wings, and exactly 5 feel from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail, and 

 weighed 22^ fts. His head and part of neck, wings and feet are being preserved by 

 Mr. Ward, of Vere Street, and his body was consigned to the tender mercies of my 

 cook, and, done ample justice to by myself and family, and a better bird I never 

 tasted. My list of wildfowl killed here this winter includes the longtailed duck, 

 little grebe, velvet duck, scoter. Brent goose, shieldrake, dilnbird and goldeueye. — 

 'Field ' Newspaper. 



Additional Eggs of the Great Auk.— I shall be glad if you will insert the following 

 additions to the list given by Mr. Roberts (Zool. 7353) :— England (Mr. Wilmot), 1 ; 

 United States, 2; Museum, Paris, 1 ; private collections in France, 6; Duchy of 

 Breslau, 1 ; Museum, Dresden, 1 ; private collections in Germany, 4 ; Museum, 

 Leyden, 1 ; Museum, Amsterdam, 1 ; Museum, Russia, 1 ; private collection in the 

 Netherlands, I ; Denmark, 2 ; Algeria, ] : making the total number amount to 44 spe- 

 cimens. — Robert Champ ley ; Scarborough, February 1, 1861. 



Additional Eggs of the Great Auk. — I have been quite amazed by the perusal of 

 a list of the great auk's eggs, by Mr. A. Roberts, of Scarborough. It contains no 

 reference to my great auk's egg figured by Mr. Hewitson in the third edition of his 

 ' Eggs of British Birds,' or to the list of the possessors of such eggs given by him, 

 which includes Mr. Scales as well as myself, who are both omitted in Mr. Roberts's 

 list. I once possessed three great auk's eggs: I let Mr. Labrey have one, and another 

 has devolved from my late friend Mr. Wolley to Mr. Newton. Mr. Hewitsou's figure 

 of my egg is, unfortunately, placed across the plate, so that there is not space to do it 



