3372 The Zoologist— January, 1873. 



without douht a copied mistake." May T assure you that the mistake, if it 

 exists, is not a copied mistake. On the authority of my own observations, 

 I placed it in the list of local names — i. e. of those names by which the bird 

 is known in the district, a definition to which the name in question 

 certainly answers. I have frequently heard it used by gamekeepers, by the 

 local birdstuffers, and by other people of a similar class,— a fact in itself 

 sufficient to prove it worthy a place amongst local names. I may mention 

 the fact that the local printer of my book, on reading the anecdote given in 

 connection with the name, exclaimed that he now understood the meaning 

 of the jesting application to all Aklbourne men. It was, so at least says 

 tradition, some of the wise men of that place who in ignorance first called a 

 little grebe a " sea woodcock." I do not in the least mean to infer that the 

 name is not applied to the godwits, but only that its Marlborough denotation 

 is different ; indeed, as the godwit is at Marlborough an unknown bird, it 

 is not likely to have any name amongst the inhabitants of the district. The 

 application which you point of this name to British fish, shell, and fowl, is 

 certainly rather a strage coincidence. — Everard F. Im Thurn ; Oxford 

 Union Socictij, November 8, 1872. 



Polish Swan.— I quite agree with Mr. Duruford (Zool. S. S. 3339) that 

 gray feet and legs cannot be maintained as a specific difference in the 

 so-called Polish swan [Cygnus immutahilis). I have seen sonje cygnets of 

 the mute swan, at the swan'" upping" time, with light gray feet and legs, 

 and the same in two- or three-year old birds in their full white plumage. — 

 Henry Stevenson; Norwich, December 16, 1872. 



Sclavonian Crcbc and Circat Black Woodiieokcr in Norfolk.— On the 2nd 

 instant I procured, at Leadenhall Market, a good specimen of the Sclavoniaa 

 grebe, which had been sent up from Norfolk. It was a bird of this year, in 

 the immature plumage. I was glad to hear that a great black woodpecker 

 had been sent from the same county about a fortnight before. Perhaps the 

 fortunate possessor of it will confirm this statement. — W. Oyilvy ; British 

 Museum, December 9, 1872. 



A Recent Trilobite. — On the 12th of February, while dredging about 

 forty leagues east of Cape Fico, Professor Agassiz found a crustacean with 

 a great number of rings and thi-ee-lobed : it is named Tomocharis Purceii. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



November 4, 1872. — Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in 



the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors ; — ' The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London,' vol. xxviii. 



