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measured from carpal joint to end of longest quill-featber 19£ inches; full length 

 4 H inches. Another was shot in the same locality on Saturday, the 26th of January, 

 and was purchased hy Mr. Marsh, of Ramridge House, lo add to his collection : this 

 specimen appeared to me to he the same in every respect as the one I have (a male 

 bird in equally good plumage and condition). Mr. Whatman, of this city, told me he 

 saw a flock of seven of these geese on the 19th instant, in a meadow at Hominglon, 

 which is the adjoining village to Coombe Bissett, where the two birds were killed! 

 From inquiries I have since made I cannot learn that these birds were kept on any 

 ornamental water or lake in the neighbourhood; it may therefore be deduced that they 

 are bona fide specimens of the bird inlits natural state.— Henry Blachnore; Salisbury 

 February 20, 1867. 



Tufted Packard on the River Lea.— It maybe interesting to ornithologists to learn 

 that on the 20th of March a flock of the tufted pochard were observed on the River 

 Lea, about a mile from Hoddesdon, between Carthageua Weir and Charlton Mill 

 My son, who was taking a stroll with his gun, was fortunate enough to come upon 

 them, and got two double shots and one single shot at them as they wheeled round 

 him three times. Five fell to his first double shot, three to his second, and one to his 

 single shot: of these he secured seven ; the other two birds, being but slightly hit, fell 

 into the river, dived and escaped among the sedges. Five of the specimens, being in 

 good condition, are in the hands of our taxidermist, Mr. William Downing.— William 

 T. Hooper; Hoddesdon, March 22, 1867. 



Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk.— On the 18th of January last an immatnre male of 

 the ferruginous duck passed into my hands for preservation; it had been killed a day 

 or two previously, with other ducks, on the Broad at Hickling.— T. E. Gunn; 3, West 

 Pollergale, Norwich. 



Goosander in Wiltshire.- -Mr. R. H. Bathurst informs me that his father's bailiff 

 found a goosander on the banks of a lake, at Clarendon, Wiltshire : it was a fine male 

 specimen, and was quite dead when found— about a week since. Its mouth was full 

 of f.e*h-water weeds.— A. Clark- Kennedy ; Eton, February 12, 1867. 



Goosander and Shoveller Duck in the South of Ireland.— I have received for pre- 

 servation male and female specimens of the above-named birds. The male goosander, 

 which had a trout in his mouth, was shot by Mr. Taylor, on the Roughly River, Ken- 

 mare, County Kerry, four miles from the sea ; the female was killed at Knock, County 

 Clare, by Capt. Gore. The shoveller duck, or rather drake, was shot by Mr. Hendley, 

 near the junction of the Blackwater and Funcheon Rivers, County Cork; the female 

 by Mr.. Dunscombe, in a bog near Blarney. The shoveller has some beautifully 

 marked feathers under the wing, very useful to the salmon-fisher.— IT. A. Hacked ■ 

 38, Patrick Street, Cork.— From the « Field.' 



Rednecked and Sclavonian Grebes and Great Northern Diver in Norfolk. Two males 



of the rednecked grebe were obtained, one on the 28th of January at Marlingford, and 

 the other on the 10th of February near Yarmouth : in the stomach of the first I found 

 the remains of a frog, a water beetle, and a few hairs: in the stomach of the second 

 were the remains of some small fish (probably roach), mixed with a quantity of its 

 own feathers. Two specimens, both females, of the Sclavonian grebe were shot in the 

 latter part of January or beginning of February; one at Rollesby and the other at 

 Beeston Regis : the entire contents of their stomachs comprised a few small fish-bones, 

 rebbles, and some of their own feathers. I heard of the capture of an immature bird 



