The Zoologist — October, 1867. 951 



Great Northern Diver at Looe. — I was surprised last week by the appearance of 

 a great northern diver in our bay: I saw it three or four days successively, although 

 the season is earlier by two or more months than we usually first see them. On 

 examining it through a good glass I was unable to detect the least appearance 

 of summer plumage, yet I think it must be an old bird, as I cannot fancy a young 

 one would be likely to find its way here so soon after the breeding season. — Stephen 

 Clogg. 



Puffin on the Norfolk coast. — Since my previous notice of the occurrence of the 

 puffin on this coast, another specimen has been obtained ; a male was shot during the 

 latter part of June last on the Cromer beach, within a few miles of the former occur- 

 rence. — T. E. Gunn. 



Occurrence of the Whilewinged Black Tern in Norfolk. — I had lately the great 

 good fortune to secure for my collection a very beautiful adult male of this rare 

 species, which had been shot on Hiekling Broad on the 27th of June. The only other 

 example kuown to have visited our coast was shot at Horsey, an adjoining broad to 

 Hiekling, on the 17th of May, 1853, and is now in the possession of Mr. Robert 

 Rising: this bird was killed out of a flock of the common black tern; and my own, 

 I have little doubt, arrived in like company, as both broads and ineres this last spring 

 were visited by a somewhat unusual number of black terns, now no longer nesting in 

 Norfolk. — H. Stevenson; Norwich, September 17, 1867. 



The Birds of Scandinavia. — A short time since I purchased at Messrs. Stevens' 

 sale-room some works, formerly the property of the lamented correspondent of 'The 

 Field,' Mr. H. W. Wheelwright, better remembered, possibly, by his nom de plume of 

 ''The Old Bushman." Amongst the books were copies of a pamphlet compiled by 

 himself, and printed at Carlstad, Sweden. It is a comparative list of the birds of 

 Scandinavia and Great Britain. It gives the Latin, the Swedish and the English 

 name of all the species found in the two countries, and in a very succinct manner 

 states whether they are permanent residents, occasional visitants or regular migrants, 

 giving their summer localities and breeding-stations. To English visitors to the 

 country of Sweden this pamphlet of eighteen pages, giving as it does the Swedish 

 name of every species, must be very useful. My object in writing this note is to offer 

 the copies, as far as they will go, to the readers of 'The Field.' I shall be willing to 

 post one to any address on receipt of six postage-stamps, to cover cost and postage. 

 If there should be more demand than I have copies to part with, I shall of course 

 return the stamps to the latest applicants. I think that there may be some who, like 

 myself, would desire to possess even so slight a souvenir of our lamented friend.— 

 W. B. Tegetmeier ; Muswell Hill, London, N. — From the ' Field.' 



Curious Position of Nests. — This season I found a chiffchaff's nest in a rather 

 unusual situation : it was placed some four feet from the ground in the ivy which 

 clings on to the Albert Bridge, Windsor: it had three eggs in it. I found a willow 

 wren's nest (also close to the River Thames) in a holly bush, about three feet from the 

 ground. While staying at Brighton, at Easter, Mr. Pratt told me that he knew of a 

 robin's nest which was being built in an old Wellington boot. I discovered a nightin- 

 gale's nest, this season, some way from the ground in a laurel-bush. Out of the many 

 reed-warbler's nests which I found this summer in the vicinity of Windsor only one 

 was within five feet of the ground ; most of these nests were six and seven feet above 

 the ground, and at some distance from water: they were all built in lilac-bushes. 



