2066 The Zoologist — March, 1870. 



the summer considerable numbers of ibis species, both old and young birds, along the 

 const and near the Point ; some of the latter, indeed, not very strong on the wing, and 

 siill, judging from the clamour of the old birds, the subjects of pareutnl solicitude. I 

 have also had young birds of the year shot at Sj)urn. From these circumstances I am 

 still inclined to think that the common tern, although, as Mr. Boyes says, not breeding 

 with the colony of lesser tern, docs nest somewhere in the vicinity, either along the 

 Yorkshire coast or even on the opposite coast of Lincolnshire : for, if not, where do the 

 old birds, seen during the spring and summer about the mouth of the Hnmber and at 

 Spurn, accompanied later by iheir youug, come from ? I know of no breeding-place 

 of S. Hirundo on the east coast to the norih of Spurn, except that on ihe Fame 

 Islands, and should scarcely think our Spurn birds belong to that colony. The fact of 

 a few pairs of Sandwich tern nesting at Spurn was entirely derived from what fisher- 

 men resident there told me; and I think it quite possible I may, as Mr. Boyes says, 

 have been misled as to their breeding. 1 concluded that the tern referred to belonged 

 to this species from its being described as tbe largest of the three terns visiting Spurn, 

 with an expanse of wing approaching that of the brown-headed gull. — John Cordeaux ; 

 Great Coles, Ulceby, February 4, 1870. 



Little Gulls in Leadenhall Market. — On going into Leadenhall Market to-day 

 (February 16th) I saw no less than ei^iht specimens of the little gull, and on my return 

 liomewards I saw three more that had been l)ought in the market just previous to my 

 visit : eight of the birds were fine adult specimens, in fine winter plumage. It is not 

 often one has the chance of seeing so many specimens of this bird in one day in this 

 country. — F. Bond. 



[I saw nine specimens of the little gull in Leadenhall Market on the 10th of 

 February, and several bitterns. On one occasion lately I counted twenty-seven 

 bitterns in the tnarket: these were probably from Holland. — Edward AVwHiaw.] 



Glaucous Gull at Weston-super-Mare. — A very fine specimen of the glaucous gull 

 was shot here about New-year's Day : it is very nearly in adult plumage. Two more 

 examples have since been obtained here ; one caught in a gin near the town, the other 

 shot on the Sleep Holm. — Murray A. Malhew ; Weston-super-Mare, February 12, 

 1870. 



Correction of an Error. — By the kindness of Mr. Swaysland I had the pleasure to- 

 day of examining the bird mentii)ned in the 'Zoologist' (S. S. 1984) by Mr. Bond, 

 undrr the name of the snow linch (Frinyilla nivalis). The specimen in question is 

 certainly not of that species, but appears U> me to belong to the Alauda sibirica of 

 Gnielin, the Alauda leucoptera of Pallas, and in this opinion Mr. Alfred Newton, who 

 was with mc, concurs. — George Dawson Rowley ; Chichester House, Brighton, Jan. 1, 

 1870. 



[This is the note to which I referred (Zool. S. S. 2022). I thought it unnecessary 

 to publish both this and Mr. Bond's correction of the same mistake, but a valued 

 correspondent thinks otherwise, and I defer to his opinion. — Edward Newman."] 



JRichurd's Pipit. — The rarity of the season consists of two specimens of this fine 

 pipit, killed, as all others have been in Norfolk, in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, 

 and, strange to say, by the same individual (Serjeant Barnes, late of the Police Force) 

 who has killed three previous specimens. The first, which proved to be a male, was shot 

 on the 1st of December; the second, also a male, on the 14ih; both are in perfect 



