The Zoologist — Novembkr, 1870. 23()9 



August 31. Shot a greenshank and an adult female shoveler 

 duck. 



September 6. Fell in with a small flock of little stints : they were 

 fiequenting the margin of a large pool, and were very tame, but 

 having large shot I only obtained one. 



September 8. Shot two more little stints and a Temminck's stint: 

 when one of these birds is shot one or more of the rest will often 

 flutter round it and afford an easy shot: this I thought was only the 

 case when one of a pair was shot, until I killed a little stint in the act 

 of hovering over the Temminck's stint as it was lying dead. To-day 

 I had the pleasure of seeing, in the flesh, the alpine swift which was 

 mentioned in the 'Zoologist' for October (S. S. 2345): its companion 

 has not been seen again. I received an adult curlew sandpiper, in 

 partial summer dress, to-day. 



September 10. Three large geese have been frequently seen 

 about the Thorpe Mere lately, where they have been associating 

 with the common domestic species. One was shot to-day, and 

 proved to be an adult male graylag goose, in full plumage. The 

 breast is marked with small 'black streaks, somewhat resembling the 

 whitefronted goose; but the much greater size, together with the 

 colour of the legs, identifies the species. This is one of the rarest 

 geese on this coast. 



September 13. Little stints are unusually plentiful, and associate 

 with the curlew sandpiper and dunlin : I have obtained the three 

 species at one shot. 



September 19. Two immature sheldrakes, out of a party of six, 

 were shot in the mere to-day. 



October 7. Saw a Royston crow near Norwich. 



October 8. Received a snow bunting from Aldeburgh. 



J. G. Tuck. 



Tosloch House, near Bury St. EdnuiDcis, 

 October 13, 1870. 



Extracts from a Memoir intituled 'A Monograph of the Alcidce.' 

 By Elliott Coues, A.M., M.D. 



(Continued from S. S. 2334). 



Genus Uria [Moehr.), Brisson. 

 Bill much shorter than the head, about equal in the tarsus, straight, 

 rather stout, moderately compressed ; culmeu at first straight, then 



