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when it got into my hands it was nearly rotten. — H. J. Harding ; 131, Lower Street, 

 Deal, October 10, 1866. 



Glossy Ibis at Scilly. — A bird of the year of the ibis was shot on one of the Scilly 

 Isles last Monday : it is a smaller bird than the specimen killed there twelve years 

 ago, which we put down as a two-year old. I examined the present specimen yester- 

 day, after it was skinned, but I am told it was in full flesh: the whole of the under 

 parts are dull smoke-brown; the chin and neck have some of the feathers bordered 

 with while; the upper parts lapwing-green. The middle claw is serrated. — Edward 

 Hearle Rodd; Penzance, October 13, 1866. 



Glossy Ibis at Budleigh Salterlon. — I was to-day in the shop of Mr. Truscott.bird- 

 stufTer, in Exeter, and there saw a specimen of the glossy ibis, which had been shot on 

 the 11th, at the mouth of the River Oiler, at Budkigh Salterton. It is a young bird 

 in the plumage of its first autumn. — Murray A. Mathciv; October 16, 1866. 



The Stork at Cork.—\ stork was killed near Hop Island, on the Lee, by the engine- 

 driver of the Cork and Passage Railsvay, on the 7lh of August. It weighed 8 fts. — 

 William Ashton Ha'kett, in the ' Field ' Newspaper. 



Huff near Grangemouth. — A second specimen of the ruff was shot close to Grange- 

 mouth, on the 24ih of September, by my friend Mr. J. H. Belfrage. It was a bird of 

 the year, and a small specimen. Immediately after the bird was secured the gloss and 

 oily smoothness of the feathers on the back was very beautiful, but two hours afterwards 

 this was entirely gone. It was flying in company with a flock of dunlins when it was 

 shot, and both Mr. Belfrage and myself were struck by the unusual brightness of its 

 plumage as it flew past, appmaching to the yellowish tinge of the golden plover. This 

 specimen very much resembled the bufl'breasted sandpiper. The former specimen 

 which I mentioned as killed in the same locality (Zool. 9118) was nearly double the 

 size of this one. — /. A. Harvie Brown. 



Wood Sandpiper in Aberdeenshire. — On the 1st of September I flushed a flock of 

 sandpipers at Don-mouth. At one of the birds, which was difl"erent from and more con- 

 spicuous than the others.having the rump white,I fired a snap-shot, but with apparently 

 no other result than causing the bird to separate from its companions: it flew by the 

 coast-line southward. On my way home, passing the largest pool on ihe Links, near the 

 Cow Hillock, my dog sprang what appeared to be the same bird hanging one of its legs. 

 Another shot, and I was in possession of a wood saiid])i|)er, a bird of the year. The 

 bird on the wing was very much like the young of the curlew sandpiper, for which 

 I mistook it. Except in England, so far as I am aware, there is no authentic record 

 of the occurrence of the wood sandpiper in this country. Mr. Morris {vide ' British 

 Birds'), in reference to this species aflirms that in Ireland " a pair were noticed several 

 years in succession at Glenbour." But Jlr. Thompson, who is remarkable for his 

 accuracy, and from whom Mr. Morris evidently borrows the statement, considers the 

 occurrence of this species in Ireland as doubtful. "In Scotland," Mr. Morris con- 

 tinues, " the eggs are said to have been procured in Elginshire." I have been at some 

 trouble to have this saying verified, but have failed. As the wood sandpiper is new to 

 the Fauna of Scotland, and one of the rarest of the British birds, a short description of 

 the spicinien referred to may not be uninteresting to some of the readers of the 

 ' Zoologist': — Sex female. Weight nearly two ounces and a quarter. Length from 

 the beak to the tail eight inches and a half; to the toes ten inches and three-quarters. 

 Wing from carpus four inches and five-eighths; extent fourteen inches. Upper 



