692 The Zoologist — April, 1807. 



they run over the fresh-fallen snow, their broad strong feet and long 

 hind claw are admirably adapted for carrying them easily over a 

 yielding surface. Some which I shot for examination during the 

 severe weather were very fat; their muscular stomachs full of the seeds 

 of various grasses, and several small angular stoues. 



Dunlin. — Have already seen indications of a change in the plumage 

 of these birds ; one shot to-day (February 9th) had partly acquired the 

 rich brown-black and reddish orange feathers on the shoulders, cha- 

 racteristic of the summer plumage. 



Gulls. — Thousands of gulls, namely herring, brownheaded and 

 common, with an occasional lesser blackbacked, have for some weeks 

 resorted to the partly submerged meadow-lands, feeding on the 

 drowned worms and slugs : even the solitary and exclusive great 

 blackbacked gull has condescended to come inland and feed in the 

 society of his smaller congeners. It is very rarely that the lesser 

 blackbacked gull remains with us during the winter. 



Sloncchat. — These little birds have been quite of common occur- 

 rence in this parish during the winter. They are much more frequent 

 in this locality than formerly. 



Pied Wagtail. — Some few of these wagtails usually remain with us 



throughout the whole of the winter (Zoologist 9598, 9710, and S. S. 



131). I frequently observed one or two of these little birds about the 



sheep-folds in my turnip-fields up to the end of December. The 



unusually severe weather early in this year has cither killed or driven 



them away, for I have not noticed any since this time. 



John Cordeaux. 

 Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire. 



Erratum. — There is an error in the 'Zoologist,' S. S. 591, line 17; for "south- 

 ward'' read " northward." — J. C. 



List of Birds noticed in East Finmark, with a few short Remarks 

 respecting some of them. By Ch. Sommerfeldt, Parish Priest 

 of Naesseby. Translated and communicated by H. E. Dresser, 

 Esq. 



Although various notes on the birds occurring in Finmark have been 

 published, still a list of those occurring in East Finmark, with a few 

 short remarks on some of them, may not be altogether uninteresting, 

 as the larger portion of the notes taken are confined to observations 



