2022 The Zoologist— February, 1870. 



Bridlington, on the SOiIi of Sep'ember; the great snipe {Scolopax mnjnr), sh't at 

 l-lHinlioi()U»h, by Colonel Hall, on the 20lii of September. — T. Buynlon ; Ulrume 

 (iraiuje, Lnwlhorpe, Hull, December 27, 18(39. 



Shore Lark at tit. Andreivs. — An adult female of Alauda alpestris was shot in tlie 

 Edi n e-tiiaiy, on ilie 31st of December, 1869, while in company of suow buulintjs. 

 The bird is now in my collection. — R. G. Wardlaiv Ramsay ; Whilehill, Lassivade, 

 N.B. 



Siberian Lark at Brighton. — I have now, through the kindness of Mr. Swaysland, 

 of Brighton, the two birds concerning which I promised, in my last communication 

 (S. S. 1984), to give you more particulars. The one I believed might be a young 

 snow finch is a specimen of the Siberian lark {Alauda sibirica), the lirst that has been 

 recorded as occurring in Britain, and a very interesting ad<lilion to our lisl, as it is 

 very rare even as f. Eurcjpeau species. — Frederick Bond ; 203, Adelaide Road, South 

 Ilum/istead. 



[Mr. G. Dawson Rowley has favoured me with a note to exactly the same purport, 

 and adds that Piofessor Newion acquiesces in this decision. — Edward Newman.l 



Correction of an Error. — The bunting which I supposed to be a young male of 

 Eniberiza rustica turns out to be a young male of the Lapland bunting (Pleclrophancs 

 lap/ionica): the small size of the specimen deceived me, and I qniie thought it was 

 one of the small buutinjis that are so difficult to determine iu their winter plumage. 

 I am very much indebted to Mr. Gould for the tmuble he Las taken in going over his 

 fine series of buntings with me to identify this specimen. — Frederick Bond. 



Correction of an Error. — The citril linch mentioned in the same communication 

 must also be struck out of my list. I regret very much that I have made such 

 a mistake: the two birds are ino.st certainly wild canaries. By the kindness of my 

 fiiend Mr. J. J. Weir, who took the trouble of comjiariug skins of the wild canary with 

 ]Mr. Monk's (irsi bird, I now possess the skins he used for the comparison in my col- 

 lection, and I find that the skin of the wild bird is identical with the specimen 

 captured in Novcmbtr last, and the skin of the female bird, Mr. Weir tells me, 

 is identical with Mr. Monk's first bird. I will be more careful next lime, and will not 

 trust lo memory. — Id. 



Bramblings near Woodbridi/e. — During December a lar';e flock of the brainbling 

 have fre(|uented certain beech plantations in the neighbourhood of Woodbridge, iu 

 company with chafTinches, with which, when feeding on the ground, constant warfare 

 is kept up. — Edward Charles Moor. 



liiiiyjisher's Nest in a Crag-pit. — On the 24lh of last July I was requested by the 

 head gardener of a gentleman in the next parish lo come and see a kingfisher's nest 

 iu bis garden. I accordingly went the same afternoon with my son. We were taken 

 to the sjiot, which is a small crag-pit, forming a pan of the garden |)remises — a place, 

 close to which, and passing to and fro, are persons daily employed. In the crag-pit, 

 and about seven feet from the ground, we saw the nest, with six young ones. They 

 were about three-quarters grown, and were all pretiy near to the edge .of the hole: one 

 young bird was very clamorous fur food, and the rest were .somewhat restless, but made 

 no noise. We should have stayed to see the old birds feed them, but were told they 

 seldom came in sight, and were very shy and crafty. The crag-pit is about three 

 hundred yards in a straight line from a small river. The kingfisher had been seen at 

 the hole in the spring, and I was told by an elderly labourer in the garden that he 



