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barn owls, cuckoos and goatsuckers that aHorn the trunks of trees in all " preserved" 

 domains, exhibit very decidedly the gamekeeper's ignorance. — Edward Newman!] 



TemminclCs Stint at King's Lynn. — Two specimens of Tringa Temminckii were 

 shot near this place on the 12th of this month, by Mr. George Cresswell. They were 

 both females, and much damaged, but I shall be able to have one of them preserved 

 for our Museum. — John Lowe ; King's Lynn, September 16, 1866. 



The Buffhreasted Sandpiper in Belfast. — Whilst visilin;; one of my birdslufifers la 

 Belfast, I had the pleasure of being shown by him (Mr. Sheals) a strange sandpiper, 

 which I instantly recognized as the buffbreasted sandpiper {Tringa rufescens), in its 

 first plumage. It was shot by Mr. Joyce, of that town, in company with another too 

 much injured for stuffing, in the People's Park. On writing to Mr. Joyce for full par- 

 ticulars, he kindly wrote me the following : — " I shot it early one morning in the 

 beginning of October, flying from seaward in company with another, in a piece of 

 reclaimed slub land called the People's Park, beside the town. They flew different 

 from any of the sand lark species I have seen, and as I thought, perhaps, they were 

 some rare bird, I fired at one of them as they flew past me, and killed it; the other flew 

 on, and then, as if missing its companion, turned and flew close past me ; I fired at it, 

 and, as 1 had No. 1 shot in the left barrel, I blew it almost to atoms. I theu went 

 up and lifted the first one, and as I had never seen one before I considered it rare, and 

 went back and lifted the other one, but I was compelled to throw it away; it was 

 minus the head and one leg, and the breast torn open. * * * * I shoidd have 

 mentioned that it was about the beginning of October, 1864 ; I may be a few weeks 

 astray, but that is as near it as I can get." — H. Blake-Knox. 



Wood Sandpiper at Kingsbury Reservoir.— Oa the 30th of August, when at the 

 above Reservoir, I shot a nice specimen of this elegant sandpiper: it was alone, and 

 rather wavy, but it having settled under a high bank 1 was enabled to approach within 

 shooting distance. When on the wing its resemblance to the green sandpiper was very 

 remarkable, but when walking it showed a much more "stilted" appearance, and by 

 this and its note I suspected what it was.—F. D. Power; 32, Queen Square, W.C., 

 September 3, 1866. 



Night Heron at Belfast. — I have just seen an Irish specimen of the night heron, 

 which was got, wounded, in the People's Park, near about the place where I goi the 

 buffbreasted sandpiper, in September, 1865 (?). It is either a female or the young 

 bird. It agrees with the description given in Yarrell. — Richard Joyce; Belfast. 

 [Communicated by Mr. Blake-Knox.] 



Lacerta viridis in Kent. — A lizard was brought to rae about three weeks ago, 

 which had been taken on a raiUvay embankment in the neighbourhood : it is about 

 eiyht inches in length. The ground colour of the whole body, head and legs, a bright 

 green, dotted with black, and incliniuj? to yellow on the back. A dark brown inter- 

 rupted dorsal line e.xteuds along the whole length of the body and tail. It was 

 moulting when brought to me, and the old skin is still upon the tail, which is now of a 

 dull drab colour. It has fed freely on Noctuae, such as Triphaena orbona, Noctua 

 triangulum,&c., but refuses to eat the larger Bombyces,as well as Zygaena Filipendulae. 

 It generally eats from two to three Noctuae nightly. Is this a continental species or 

 one which has established itself here ? It seems to resemble the common green lizard 

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