The Zoologist— August, 1867. 851 



The antennae are four inches long. Femur three-quarters of an inch; 

 tibia; one inch and three-sixteenths; tarsus and claws three-eighths of 

 an inch. The vertex is much rounder or elevated and perfectly 

 smooth. 



Walter Buller. 

 Wanganui, New Zealand, May 2, 1867. 



Extracts from a Journal of a Nesting Tour in Sutherland in 1867. 

 By John A. Harvie Brown, Esq. 



Wednesday, May 8. — Mr. Jesse and myself left Larbert for the North 

 to-day, and arrived at Bonar at six o'clock in the evening. Long chat 

 with our landlord there; he says he is certain that the jack snipe 

 breeds in Sutherland, and he has himself seen the nest and eggs near 

 the source of the Canon River, in Ross-shire. We offered a handsome 

 reward to anyone who would bring or send a nest of eggs along with 

 the old bird. Our landlord employed three different keepers, each of 

 whom affirmed that he knew the bird to breed in his district. We 

 afterwards received four common snipes' eggs and the old bird. 

 Though we were thus disappointed, nevertheless I am still inclined to 

 think that the bird does breed in the county, as I know several keepers 

 there who know the bird as well as I do myself, and who would not 

 confound it with either the dunlin or the common snipe. The late 

 Mr. John Wolley's correspondent in Sutherland is among the number, 

 and he knows all the birds of the county most perfectly (' Ootheca 

 Wolleyana,' Part 1, page 39, and elsewhere, mentioned). 



Thursday, May 9. — From Bonar to Altuacealgach Inn. Saw the 

 following birds : — herring gull, lesser blackbacked gull (the commonest 

 gull in the west of the county), great blackbacked gull, blackheaded 

 gull, curlews, two magpies (the magpie is common about Rosehall and 

 in the east of the county, but is almost unknown in the west), one hen 

 harrier (male), one redstart, willow warblers, cuckoos, kestrels, 

 chaffinches, wheatears, hooded crows (the common crow of the county), 

 spotted flycatchers, robins, one raven, one missel thrush, one song 

 thrush, rooks (do not in breeding season go further north than Cama 

 Loch in the west). At Altuacealgach we received from our corre- 

 spondent there five teal ducks' eggs and ten wild ducks' eggs, taken for 

 us that day, also heron's eggs, &c. 



Friday, May 10. — Visited a loch in the neighbourhood : saw graylag 

 geese, redshanks, teal, wild duck, dunlins, sandpipers and one tern (?), : 



