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doubtless an escaped specimen ; but, judging from the lovely emerald- 

 green and general lively tints of its plumage, the bird must have been 

 at large for a considerable time. It was a male, and the stomach 

 contained some half-digested seeds, but iu such a state of trituration 

 as to render them impossible of identification. 



Variety of the Hedgesparrow. — A cream-coloured variety of the 

 common " dunuoch " was sent to me by Mr. Kemp, of Skerne. It had 

 been shot by himself on the 20th of August near to Skerne, the same 

 locality from whence he obtained for me two very similar specimens 

 during the two preceding years. 



Greenshank. — A very fine male of this species was shot on the 

 River Hull by Mr. Kemp, on the 26th of August. It was sent to m.e 

 in the flesh, and is the second example only I have met with in this 

 neighbourhood. 



Rosecoloured Pastor. — I obtained a splendid mature male of this 

 rare bird, in the flesh, on the 30th of August of the present year. It 

 had been shot on the 26th on Cottingham Common, about five miles 

 from Beverley, by Robert Duncum, farmer and publican, of the village 

 of Cottingham. 



Spotted Crake. — Several of these birds, in various stages of 

 maturity, have been shot on the River Hull during the summer of 

 1865. The first I saw were shot on the 30th of August, by Mr. F. 

 Boyes, of Beverley, and Mr. T. Buckley. Numbers have been seen 

 by Mr. Boyes, who frequently beats the sedgy margins of our River 

 Hull, but they are so difficult to "flush" that few are brought to 

 bay. 



Water Rail. — Mr. F. Boyes has also shot several of these birds, 

 which, although comparatively plentiful on the River Hull, appear to 

 be becoming less abundant in many other districts. 



Arctic and Lesser Tern. — Mr. Joseph Owen, of Beverley, shot 

 several of the arctic tern and also of the lesser tern, at Spurn, during 

 the months of July and August. He also sent me a basket of their 

 eggs, which had been gathered at Spurn, mixed up with those of the 

 ringed plover. 



Black Tern. — Was seen by Mr. M. Bailey, on the 16th of August. 

 Mr. Bailey informs me that on that day he saw a pair of the black 

 tern, off Flamborough, but he failed in endeavouring to secure them 



for me. 



Great Shearwater. — A most perfect specimen of this bird, so very 

 rare on the east coast of Yorkshire, was sent to me in the flesh by Mr. 



