Thk Zoologist— November, 1869. 1921 



grausli tinge, and the reddish brown spots^•^nd bluish gray markings are mostly coii- 

 tined to the larger end, and are disposed in irregular blotches, some of considerable 

 size. In one egg the ground colour approaches to a light brown, and is very thickly 

 marked and blotched all over with dark reddish brown and dusky gray. But none of 

 the eggs are of the " light cream-colour" described by Macgillivray. The eggs, though 

 much larger and differently shaped, bear a striking resemblance to those of the missel 

 thrush. — Henry Hadfield. 



Greenshink and Lesfier Tern at Leigh. — On the 18th of September I had the good 

 fortune to shoot an adult greenshank at Leigh: this bird, I am told, is seldom seen 

 there; certainly T have never before seen it during the six years I have known the 

 place. I also obtained four specimens of the lesser tern, an adult and three immature 

 birds. — A. H. Smee. 



Greenshank near Yarmouth. — A very fine female of this species was sent me on 

 the 20lh of September, from the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, being exceedingly fat 

 and oily: it weighed nine ounces. — T. E. Gunn. 



Cape Pigeon and Gannet in Leicestershire. — Five extraordinary birds, which had 

 evidently got out of their latitude and lost their way, have been seen recently in 

 Leicestershire, and two of them have been captured. It is supposed they have come 

 in a heavy gale, and were unable to gel back. One was caught by Mr. Hart, of Rol- 

 leston, on the estate of G. Heap, Esq. It was exhausted by long flight, and was un- 

 able to rise again into the air. It proved to be the pintado petrel or Cape pigeon, 

 and is a fine specimen, measuring four feel six inches from tip to tip of wings, and its 

 body is fifteen inches long. Ii lived two days, but would not eat anything. The other 

 is a still more remarkable specimen. It is a gannet, and measures from tip to tip of 

 wings no less than six feel eight inches, the body being two feel ten inches in length. 

 It was taken at Houghtoii-on-lhe-Hill by Mr. Tiptaft, alive but nearly exhausted. 

 Still it resisted capture, and attacked the shepherd do^' and sheep. The two strangers 

 may be seen at, Mr. T. H. Poller's, BiWesdon.— Stamford Mercury, October 1, 1869. 

 [Communicated by Mr. Cordeaux.] 



The Cormorant inland. — On the 1st instant a fine female cormorant, in the second 

 year's plumage, was shot on the margin of the lake al Kimberley Hall, the seat of the 

 Earl of Kimberley. It had been observed about the lake for some days, and appeared 

 to be rather tame. On opening its mouth I found as many as eleven individuals of 

 the common river leach, and three others on its plumage: most of these seemed com- 

 pletely gorged with blood, no doubi from the body of the bird. It was in a rather 

 lean condition, although it appeared to have fared sumptuously in its late quarters. 

 In the course of dissection I found an entire jack of thirteen inches and a half in 

 length ; the head, lodging in the stomach, was almost entirely decomposed. The 

 occurrence of ihis bird so far inland is quite an unusual event, although sometimes 

 an individual has been caught on the river a few miles above Norwich. In carefully 

 examining the body of the present specimen I found an old gun-shot wound on one of 

 its thighs, with a broken bone, which had partly healed up: this impediment may 

 probably account for its being so easily approached. — T. E. Gunn ; October, 1869. 



Little Gull at Brighton.— A specimen of the little gull, not fully moulted, was shot 

 last week near the head of the New Pier, and was taken to Swaysland.— T. iV. 

 Wonfori October }e, ]869. 



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