Tur Zootocist—JuLy, 1872. 3149 
English White’s thrush to be the young of the missel thrush; I have 
witnessed just such a scene this morning: a pair of tumbler pigeons have 
brought off two hatches this season; the second consists of only a single 
bird: this forlorn individual is continually applying to his parents for food, 
and they are as constantly bullying him, for the hen has hatched a third 
time, and wishes the attention of her husband to be given to this third 
brood. The poor ill-used elder offspring has been driven quite away to seek 
his fortune elsewhere. I have witnessed the same proceeding on many 
previous occasions, not only with pigeons, but with paroquets and tree 
sparrows ; indeed, those used to the breeding-habits, supposing them to have 
the critical eye to perceive the distinctive characters of White’s thrush, 
would have thought this little exhibition most conclusive evidence that 
expellers and expelled were of the same species—Hdward Newman. | 
Correction of Evrors.—Allow me to point out the following errors in 
the ‘ Zoologist ’ (S. 8. 3043):—In describing the under surface of White's 
thrush the semicolon should be placed after the word “tip”; and in the 
description of the greater wing-coverts of the missel thrush read “five” 
instead of “ fine.” —J. Sclater. 
Wilson’s Snipe in Cornwall.—I may have to report to you officially the 
occurrence of Scolopax Wilsoni as a British bird. In the month of January, 
1838, my attention was drawn by Mr. Vingoe to a snipe he had to stuff 
having sixteen tail-feathers, but in other respects exactly resembling our 
common §. Gallinago. I made a note of it at the time in my interleaved 
Temminck. This specimen has come into my possession within the last 
day or two.—Edward Hearle Rodd ; Penzance, June 17, 1872. 
[Since the preceding was in type Mr. Rodd has submitted the bird to 
Mr. Gould, who states that the colour and arrangement of colours of the 
tail-feathers differ from Scolopax Wilsoni. Ornithologists will therefore 
please to suspend their judgment for the present.—Hdward Newman.] 
Sanderlings at the Mouth of the Mersey—June 1st—There have been 
large flocks of sanderlings on the flats at the mouth of the Mersey to-day. 
I procured eleven, and could have trebled that number if I had desired, 
most of them in complete summer plumage; they are surely making a very 
late stay on our coasts this year. June 11.—I observed a small flock of 
about fifteen sanderlings to-day, out of which I procured one. Is this delay 
in their migration to be accounted for by the rough weather and strong 
north-westerly winds we have had lately 9—H. Durnford ; 1, Stanley Road, 
Waterloo, Liverpool, June 12, 1872. 
Gullbilled Tern in Hampshire.—On the 14th of May a fine adult speci- 
men of the very rare “ British” gullbilled tern (Sterna anglica), which is 
now in my possession, was killed near Christchurch, Hants. Unfortunately 
Mr. H. Hart, bird-preserver, of Christchurch, from whom I procured this 
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