The Zoologist— April, 1866, ]67 



remarked (Zool. S. S. 88) having found ten of these birds in a yew tree 

 at the same place : this was in March. 



Tlie Coly,nbi.-The redthroated diver has been scarce here during 

 the past winter; but the great northern diver has, on the contrary 

 been more frequently met with than usual on the coast and in our 

 tiarbours It would seem, by comparing the notes which have 

 appeared in the 'Zoologist' that these two species have, to a certain 

 extent, exchanged beats" this winter, Colymbus glacialis taking the 

 place of C. septentrionalis in the south, and vice versa in the north 

 bince the commencement of the present year several great northern 

 divers have been brought into Chichester, where they are eagerly 

 sought after and bought f.,r the skins, to be cut up as before stated 

 IZ-ool. h. b. 141) to make plumes for decorating ladies' hats. I have 

 not had an opportunity of examining any of these specimens in 

 the flesh, but from the "remains" I am certain that at least two 

 ot them had the upper plumage very much marked with white 

 spots. 



Eared Grebe.-k specimen of this rare grebe was shot in Chichester 

 Harbour in the last week of January. Unfortunately I could onlv 

 obtain the head; the birdstuffer to whom it was sent having received 

 oiders^to cut up the skin for plumes, which was done before I saw it 

 Ihis plume mama" frequently deprives us collectors of a rare bird 

 1 believe this same man had a ringed guillemot to cut up, but not 

 having a chance to see the head of this bird I cannot speak positively 

 about It. The shape of the bill in the eared grebe at once dis- 

 tinguishes it from the Sclavonian grebe, which species it appears 

 mostly to resemble. Some few of the bright feathers which form the 

 Uift on each side of the head are visible in the present specimen 

 Ijrebes, on the whole, have been scarce about here this winter; even 

 the dabchick IS much more rare than it was a few years ago. 



February, 1866. 

 Common Buzzard.— 1 obtained a specimen of the common buzzard 

 in the flesh, on the 3rd; it had been killed at Stanstead, a iew days' 

 before. Ihis is a very rare bird in Sussex, and I was glad to get it 

 for my collection. It proved, on dissection, to be a female, and 

 although in excellent condition the stomach was quite empty The 

 general colour of the plumage is rusty brown, with a coppei7 tinge, 

 the under parts slightly intermixed with white. As Yarrell does not 



