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the Norfolk coast, many of them, as the weather was thick, settling on the ship. 

 Among these was a bird which we took at first to be a redstart, as it sat up in the 

 crosstrees, but which, on taking a short flight to the rail of the companion-ladder, was 

 seen to be a bluethroated warbler, a bird of the year, with the blue feathers of the horse- 

 shoe intermingled with brown, in the same state of plumage as many procured two 

 years before in the marsh at Fogstuen, on the Dovre Fjeld. We watched it some 

 time, until it flew off in the direction of Aldeburgli, distant then about twelve miles, 

 where we will hope it found a congenial abode, if indeed it ever reached land in the 

 face of the fresh breeze which just then sprung up. — J. R. Griffith ; Oxford. 



Swallows and Martins dying from Cold. — Having just read Mr. Moor's note in the 

 November number of the' Zoologist ' (S.S. 990), I beg to inform him that I picked 

 up a martin in our garden at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, upon the 24th of September last: one 

 of the servants first saw a bird — a swallow as he thought — fly down and settle upon a 

 young shrub ; he then called me to look at it, but by the time I arrived at the spot the 

 bird had fallen from his perch and was lying dead underneath it. I examined this 

 bird, and found it to have died from starvation or cold, probably both. On the 16th 

 or 17th instant I found another martin, which had also perished from cold, close to 

 Darsham House, near Saxmundham, in Suffolk. I observed that many swallows and 

 martins flew with great difficulty about this time (Sept. 20tli) : I heard of several others 

 being picked up near Darsham, all of which undoubtedly perished from want of food 

 and the effects of cold weather. — Alexander C lark- Kennedy ; Eton, Bucks, November 

 1, 1867. 



Dates of the Departure of Immigrants for 1867. — The following are the days upon 

 which the bird named was last seen in the county of Buckinghamshire: — 



I did not take all these observations myself, but I can rely on most of them.— A. 

 Clark-Kennedy. 



Swallows at Salford.—li you think it of sufficient interest I wish you would 

 mention, in your records of the " ways of the feathered tribe," that our swallows did not 

 leave here in mass till the 25th of October, and that six were disporting about on the 

 4th of November, and one poor straggler on the 6th, a fine sunny day followed by a 

 sharp frost: I fear the last never got away. — John Plant; Peel Park, Sal ford. 



Reparation of a maimed Beak in the Chough. — The following curious circumstance 

 has been communicated to me by an observer in whose accuracy I have the most entire 

 confidence : In the course of last year a tame chough "broke at least half an inch off 

 the upper inaudible " of its beak, which after a time " commenced growing again aud 



