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• Beautiful Variety of the Fieldfare.— A gentleman having told me that he had seen 

 two waxwings, a short distance from my house, which allowed him to approach within 

 two or three yards of them, I took out my gun for the purpose of shooting ihein : I did 

 not succeed in finding them, but was rewarded for my trouble by shooting a beautiful 

 specimen of the fieldfare. The head and wings contained much of the usual colour, 

 mixed with a few white feathers; back beautifully marbled with white; rest of the 

 body white. There was another which looked entirely white along with it, which 

 I did not succeed in shooting. — George Mawson ; Moor Side, January 5, 1867. 



Variety of the Blackbird. — I saw a curiuus variety of the common blackbird yester- 

 day at a birdstuffer's shop in Eton : it was shot, I am informed, at Wingfield Park, 

 which is not far from Windsor, a few days ago. On its head it had the feathers on 

 the crown of a pure white colour, the white being continued in little streaks and spots 

 on the left cheek, but not on the right; one of the feathers of the right wing was pure 

 white, and the one next to that was half white, all the others being black. Under the 

 lower part of the bill it had some white marks, and the whole of the breast of the bird 

 was of a light yellow colour, more like the breast of a song thrush. The bill was light 

 brown. This specimen was a female, probably a last year's bird : I saw it in the flesh, 

 and it was of the usual size of the blackbird, and in tolerably good condition. Irides 

 yellow, and eyes of the usual colour. — A. Clark-Kennedy ; Eton, February 2, 1867. 



Firecrested Wren, Richard's Pipit and Velvet Scoter in Shropshire. — Last month 

 a firecrested wren was shot at Westbury, Shropshire: I saw it at Mr. John Shaw's, 

 birdstuffer, Shrewsbury, and carefully compared it with Gould's plate: it was a good 

 male specimen. Last autumn a Richard's pipit and a velvet scoter were killed in this 

 county, and are now in the possession of my friend Mr. T. Bodenham, of Shrewsbury. 

 — William Beckwith ; Wellington, January 15, 1867. 



Bohemian Waxwing in Norfolk and Suffolk. — These beautiful birds have been 

 exceedingly abundant in these counties during the past two months. I have myself 

 preserved and mounted as many as fifty specimens that have been shot in nearly forty 

 different localities, which will show how generally distributed they were. — T. E. Gunn ; 

 3, West Poltergale, Norwich, January 21, 1867. 



Bohemian Waxwing at Witheringsell, Suffolk. — There were two Bohemian wax- 

 wings shot at VVitheringselt, in this county, in December. I have seen them at 

 Mr. Eaton's, a birdstuffer in this town, who has preserved them; they are very fine 

 specimens. — Garrett Garrett ; 172, Wondbridge Road, Ipswich, January 26, 1867. 



Bohemian Waxwing in Somersetshire.— Mr. Wheeler, taxidermist, of 15, St. 

 Augustine's Parade, has now in his hands for preservation, a very fine specimen of the 

 Bohemian waxwing. It was shot at Butcombe Court, Somerset. — ' Field,' Jan. V2lh. 



Bohemian Waxwing near Whitby. — Very large flocks of these beautiful birds have 

 been visiting the north-east coast. No less than fifteen specimens have been shot in 

 Larpool Wuods and Russwarp Cans, near Whitby; ten near the new iron-works at 

 Glaisedale, and several in the county of Durham. — From the ' Field ' of January 26th. 



Bohemian Waxwing, Shore Lark, Richard's Pipit and Montagu's Harrier near 

 Great Yarmouth. — A pair of shore larks (male and female) were shot on the beach on 

 the 2nd of December, by Mr. Crowtha, sen., and are now in my collection. Richard's 

 pipit, shot in the marshes by Sergeant Barnes, of our police force, on the 26lh of 

 December; and a fine specimen of Montagu's harrier (female), killed near Horsey on 

 the 28th. Bohemian waxwings have been very plentiful, Mr. Carter, the taxidermist, 

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