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across the throat ; breast and belly white ; flanks striated with brown 

 feathers, alternating with the white, and terminating in the uniform 

 white of the belly ; beak and legs mottled pink and dark horn-colour; 

 iris hazel. 



Sinew. — On the 1 4th of February an immature male of this species 

 was shot on the River Hull. It was sent to Mr. R. Richardson, of 

 Beverley, for preservation, and has passed into the hands of Mr. John 

 Stephenson, also of Beverley. This species is very unusual in the 

 neighVjourhood of Beverley. 



Rednecked Grebe. — During the past month 1 have seen three speci- 

 mens of this grebe in the flesh. One was shot on a private water 

 within a few miles of Beverley, one on the River Hull, and the third 

 off" Filey. All were immature females, but the last-named was con- 

 siderably the largest, longer in the bill and having more yellow at its 

 base and along the sides of the lower mandible ; it was also grayer in 

 colour on the breast, but undoubtedly the same species, with the brown 

 of the throat very well defined; still, judging by the state of the 

 ovary, I cannot believe it had ever bred. This species is very rare in 

 our neighbourhood, so much so that 1 do not remember having pre- 

 viously seen more than a single specimen that had been shot within 

 many miles of Beverley. 



Goosander. — I never knew so many of these birds visit our river as 

 dvu'ing the present season. Several flocks have been seen, out of 

 which five or six specimens have been shot. On the 20th of February 

 I obtained the best-marked old female 1 have seen, the salmon-colour 

 on the breast being quite as deep in hue as that on the breast of an 

 old male bird, and her crest was unusually well developed. A day or 

 two afterwards Mr. W. Stephenson, of Beveiley, obtained a fully 

 mature male of this species. It had been shot ou the River Hull by 

 a young farmer, James Runton, of the Leven Carrs. Mr. Stephenson 

 also assures me that another mature male was shot about the same 

 time, but it had been plucked for the table before he secured it, the 

 person who had shot it imagining it was a duck. Mature specimens 

 of the goosander are not often seen in this neighbourhood, although 

 several young birds generally visit the River Hull during each winter. 



Swan. — On the 18th of February a young swan was shot on the 

 River Hull, whose species I am puzzled to determine. It is doubtless 

 one of the swans I mentioned in my last notes as having passed over 

 Figham, near Beverley, for these birds have been subsequently ob- 

 served, three in number, occasionally frequenting the River Hull. Its 

 colour was grayish white, decidedly gray on the head and nape, the 

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