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very fair sprinkling throughout the country. "Visiting us, as these birds do 

 in the winter, in large numbers, and well adapted, as some of our woods are, 

 to their habits, I have not been able to discover a single instance of their 

 remaining with us to breed. 



Snipes. — Are now numerous in all our bogs : they breed with us in large 

 numbers. — TT'^. J. Kerr; Maesmor, Denbighshire, North Wales. 



Sea Eagle in Jersey. — I have fortunately secured a fine specimen of the 

 cinereous or sea eagle {Haliaetus albicilla), which was killed on the rocks 

 called " Les Menquiers," a shoal about five leagues in length, on which are 

 a few fishermen's huts, about half-way between this island and France. 

 The bird is a female, and was shot by one of the fishermen and secured after 

 a great deal of trouble, having fought vigorously, although severely wounded. 

 It measured from tip to tip of wings eight feet si.x; inches, and from beak to 

 tip of tail three feet seven inches. — Christopher Allinson Green. — From the 

 ' Field ' of November 30. 



Whitctailed Eagle near Rye.— A bird of this species was shot at Iden, 

 near Rye, last week, by a labourer, and sold for a crown. Although I am 

 nearly sure it is a sea eagle {Haliaietus albicilla), its tail is not white. I see 

 it has been affirmed by some writers that the tail is not white till the third, 

 and by others till the fifth, moult. This specimen is certainly not a bird of 

 this year. I have examined the crop and gizzard ; the former was quite 

 empty, the latter had two small fish-bones and a fish's eye about the size of 

 a pea in it. The wings when outspread measured very nearly eight feet. 

 It has seven scales on each outside toe, five on the inside, twelve on the 

 middle, and four on the hind ones, besides four or five above the knee-joint. 

 Should I have named the eagle wrongly, I should be glad to be corrected. 

 It is in the hands of Mr. Garson, naturalist. Rye, and he has stuffed it very 

 creditably. — ' Field ' of November 30. 



ISolothras scriceus in Deron. — In the 'Field' of January 25, 1873, 

 Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban reports the occurrence of a specimen of this South 

 American bird, which was shot whilst feeding near Exeter with a flock of 

 starlings : of course it is presumed to be an escaped bird. It is not a 

 migratory species, and there are several specimens in the Zoological 

 Gardens. — E. Newman. 



Nesting of tlie Redwing in Nortli Yorlishire.— The following note, to an 

 article on Natural History by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, appears in the 

 'People's Magazine' for December, 1872, p. 379 : — "I obtained four eggs 

 about ten years ago from a nest in Commoudale (North Yorkshire), about 

 which, from the circumstances connected with bird, nest and eggs, there 

 could be no reasonable ground of doubt as to their origin. Only I did not 

 see the bird myself. I received the eggs and the account from a person 

 whose father had been a gamekeeper, and whose own habits had led him to 

 act often as amateur keeper, and had made him very familiar with various 



