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two inches longer than my bird, and in the immature or sombre 

 pUimage, in which state it is not unfrequently met with on this coast 

 during the winter months, but specimens in the adult plumage are 

 rare. 



Stock Dove. — On the 14th of December I saw two stock doves in 

 Chichester Market, which had been killed on the coast. This bird is 

 a winter visitant in Sussex, though possibly a few remain to breed. 

 Two were shot at a pond on the Downs, about the 30lh of May 

 last. 



Bartailed Godicit. — Eight of these birds were exhibited for sale at 

 a shop in Chichester on the I4th of December. A few bartailed god- 

 wits appear to remain through the winter with us, and I have re- 

 marked that, generally, some are killed about the first severe frost 

 that we get. 



Redhreasted Merganser. — I have seen several in the plumage of the 

 female and young, but not a single adult male. 



Fieldfare and Redwing. — Fieldfares and redwings have both 

 appeared in increased numbers during the late frost; the former seem 

 to keep much in the viciuity of the Downs, while the latter frequent 

 meadows and lowlands, feeding on grubs, &c. On the 27th of 

 December I observed, by the aid of a pocket telescope, as many as 

 six or seven fieldfares feeding on the berries of one small juniper bush ; 

 at the same time a missel thrush and a blackbird were busily engaged 

 devouring holly-berries. 



W. jEFFERYjjun. 



Eatbam, Chichester, January 6, 1865. 



Ornithological Notes from the Scilly Islands. (Communicated by 

 Edward Hearle Rodd, Esq.) 



Tresco Abbey, Thursday, December 22, 1864. — The late cold 

 weather on the mainland has driven a iew birds to the islands. The 

 first intimation of a migratorial movement was the killing of eight 

 woodcocks on the eastern islands on the 15th of December, after an 

 easterly wind, followed by a iew more killed on the Abbey Hill a day 

 or so after (a very small and partial flight). A considerable number 

 of shorteared owls arrived at the same time, and one or two longeared 

 owls. On the 19th there were a kw gray plovers on the beaches, and 

 a decided arrival of small divers: saw one or two dabchicks and 



