Tat Zootocist—Ocroser, 1872. 3257 
the natives, when they go to the lakes which they frequent, and see 
them flying, can frighten them so much with a loud shout that 
they fall down; and if they drop on the grass they may be 
easily caught with the hands, as they can neither walk nor take wing 
again.” A resident in Hide, Osteroe, gave me the skin of one of 
these birds, which was procured under the following circumstances. 
In June, 1871, a girl, cutting peats near a lake, saw a Loumur on 
the grass a few feet from the water: on running up to it the bird 
made no attempt to slide into the water, but crouched on the 
grass; she picked it up and carried it home; it was turned loose 
into a small garden, where it lived for a couple of weeks on fish 
given to it, but terminated its existence by strangling itself between 
the garden railings. We found these birds breeding by the shores, 
or on islands in solitary lakes, in several places. I took the eggs, 
fresh, from an islet in Halsavatn, Sandoe, on the 2nd June, 1872. 
In Skuoe, where a pair had prepared a nest on a small tarn on the 
summit of that island, the eggs had not been deposited by the 7th 
June. The redthroated diver is yearly becoming scarcer throughout 
these islands, owing to their destruction during the period of 
reproduction. 
H. W. FEILpen. 
(To be continued.) 
PS. Starling, No. 37.—The starling of the Fxroe Islands has decidedly 
a longer and stronger bill than individuals from the continent of Europe : 
if at the same time it showed any marked peculiarity in plumage I would 
be willing to adopt it as a good species under the name of “ §. faroensis,” 
which has already been applied to it by continental naturalists; but I will 
go no further than pointing out that climatic influences induce varieties, 
notably exemplified in the wren, the mottled raven, and the starling of the 
Feroe Islands.—H. W. F. 
Errata.—In the ‘Birds of the Feroe Islands, Zool. 8. S. p. 3215, line 34, for 
Finden read Finsen; same page, line 35, for Pratincula read Pratincola; p. 3219, 
line 88, for rests read nests; p. 3224, line 3, for Westmainshayn 7cad Westmanshayn ; 
same page, line 32, for 1868 read 1863.—H. W. F. 
Golden Oriole in Cambridgeshire—When in Cambridge a few days 
ago Mr. Baker showed me a recently-mounted male golden oriole, in very 
good plumage, which had been shot on the 5th instant in a cherry holt at 
Meldreth, Cambridgeshire.—J. G. Tuck ; July 28, 1862. 
