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rose pastor (shot by Mr. Hart), White's thrush (the one in Lord Malmesbury's collection 

 figured by Yarrell), bearded lit, Caspian tern, little bustard, black stork (Poole, Earl 

 Malmeibury's collection), little egret (Mr. Wise alludes to one shot some years ago at 

 Hale, and I expect that was the specimen Mr. Hart had), creamcoloured courser (not 

 in Mr. Wise's list), hooded merganser (of this bird I entertain doubts : it was sold to 

 a person named Locke: Mr. E. Hart remembers that it was a male in very striking 

 plumage, but the birds of Mr. Selby and Mr. Eyton are in the "dun diver" dress), 

 little gull, Bewick's swan, orangelegged hobby (not in Mr. Wise's list). Mr. E. Hart 

 or his father (the late Mr. W. Hart) had all the above-named birds in the flesh. — 

 J. H. Gurney,jun.; Bank, Darlinylon. 



Bird Murder.^— 'ihe following paragraph is copied from the 'Guardian' of 

 November 18, 18(58. Comment is unnecessary. "On a strip of coast eighteen 

 miles long near Flamborough Head, 107,260 sea-birds were destroyed by pleasure 

 parlies in four months; r2,000 by men who shoot them for their feathers to adorn 

 women's hats, and 79,500 young birds died of starvation in emptied ucsts. Com- 

 mander Knocker, there stationed, who reports these facts, saw two boats loaded 

 above the gunwales with dead birds, and one party of eight guns killed 1100 birds in 

 a week." — Jolm Cordeaux ; Great Coles, Ulcehi/, November 23, 18t)8. 



Nalui-alisU^ Book Agency. — Allow me to draw the attention of the readers of the 

 'Zoologist' to the first, second and third pages of the advertizing sheet of the October 

 number of the ' American Naturalist.' There they will see an admirable plan, now in 

 full operation in America, for the purpose of enabling naturalists to ])rocure pamphlets 

 and papers on Natural History subjects, which might not perhaps be easily procured 

 through a bookseller. Some such plan, T am convinced, if carefully carried out in 

 this country, also would not fail to be of infinite value to British naturalists. The 

 advertisement referred to above will fully explain itself, and it only requires that the 

 attention of the readers of the ' Zoologist' and of naturalists in general be directed to 

 it, to have something of a similar nature started in this country. The plan is quite 

 simple, and, as I have said already, would I am sure be of great use to a large body 

 of British naturalists. — John A. Harvie Brown; Dunipace House, Falkirk. 



Whitelailed Eagle in Sussex. — About seven o'clock in the evening of the 8th of 

 November a fine specimen of the whitutailed eagle, a bird of this year, was shot with 

 a charge of No. 5 shot by John Bearman, head keeper to Viscount Gage, in Compton 

 Wood, Firle Park, near Lewes. This bird had been seen about duriug the preceding 

 fortnight, and attempts had been made to take it in traps bailed with rabbits, 

 partridges, &c., but without avail: at length, ou the evening of the 8th, it was seen 

 on a tree, and brought down, as stated above. At the present time it is in the bauds 

 of Swaysland, the naturalist, for mounting, and has attracted considerable attention. 

 Some years since one of these birds was shot in Shoreham Harbour while gorging 

 itself with dead fish, and in 1858 a very fine specimen was shot in Arundel Park, in 

 this county. — T. W. Wonfor, Hon. Secretary Brighton atid Sussex Natural History 

 Society; Brighton. 



Capture of an Osprey in the North Sea. — A fine osprey was captured during the 

 latter part of September, by the crew of the Norwegian barque " Lina," when in the 

 middle of the North Sea: being exhausted it had settled on the rigging of the vessel, 

 and was easily taken. It is now alive, in the possession of Mr. Townsend, of Ipswich, 

 and is said to be remarkably tame.— 7". E. Gunn; 21, Regent Street, Norwich. 



