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harm from any one, and more tame ihan pheasants. I would beg any one to spare 

 them through this their first season, and would be happy to show an aviary of them to 

 any one interested in them. — S. M. Wilson; Searles, near Uckjield, October 11, 1870. 



[I have several communications on the occurrence of this quail iu Sussex: they 

 are without doubt some of Mr. Wilson's birds. — E. Newman.'] 



Quails in the East of Scotland. — Small numbers of these birds have made their 

 appearance this year in many parts of Scotland. On September 2nd one specimen was 

 shot by Mr. Annandale, at Lasswade, near Edinburgh; and on the 16th of the same 

 mouth another specimen was obtained at Lasswade. A third was obtained at 

 Galashiels in the beginning of October. I was informed yesterday by Mr. Small, of 

 Edinburgh, at whose shop I have seen all these birds, that a nest containing fourteen 

 eggs was taken last summer at Craiglockart Wood, near Edinburgh, but I am unable 

 to discover what has become of the eggs. I may also mention that two quails were 

 shot at Yester, in East Lothian, at the end of September last. — R. G. Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay : Whitehill, Lasswade, N. B., October 20, 1870. 



Quails at Wilden, Beds. — In the early part of this month we met with some quails 

 while out partridge-shooting. The male bird was first killed : an hour or two later, 

 when passing through the same field, we killed the female: a few minutes afterwards 

 we suddenly walked into the midst of a bevy of youug ones running in the stubble, 

 when they rose ; one was killed and the rest dispersed, and in the next field we came 

 on one crouching in a hollow in the grmmd, which rose upon being touched with the 

 foot, and was added to the bag. — W. J. Chalk ; Wilden Rectory, September 26, 1870. 



Quails in Norfolk. — Quails have been plentiful in Norfolk this autumn. I have 

 seen two shot, and heard of several others. — J. H. Gurney,jun. 



Gray Plover at Blukeney. — On the 8th of October 1 observed several gray plovers 

 at Blakeney, near Cromer. Two were shut, an adult in winter plumage, and a youug 

 bird retaining some of the yellow spots which mark the first plumage.— /rf. 



Wood Sandpipers and Greenshaiiks in Norfolk. — I had all the following birds sent 

 me in the flesh : — July 18. A pair of wood sandpipers from Yarmouth. July 30. A 

 male wood sandpiper from Caston, near Watton. August II. A female greeushank 

 from Hingham. August 16. Two greeushanks seen ; one, a male, shot at Hickling. 

 — T. E. Gunn. 



Woodcock in August. — A friend of mine flushed a woodcock, at Carshallon, on the 

 20th of August: he also shot on the same day three snipe and a common quail. — 

 A. //. Smee. 



Solitary Snipe in Norfolk.— On the 31st of August a female was shot at East 

 Ruslon, and a second was also killed a few days after by the same gunner iu the same 

 locality: he also saw another with the last mentioned, which, however, escaped. — 

 T. E. Gunn. 



Schim's Stint at Scilly. — I have received by the packet to-day from my nephew, 

 who is slaying at the Abbey, an interesting specimen of this Tringa, apparently in 

 change from summer to winter plumage. In examining it in the flesh with the dunlin 

 in a similar slate of plumage, I am more and more convinced of its specific value as 

 distinct from T. variabilis. The shape, character and shortness of the hill is one; it 

 is very much shorter,— in fact, as short as the buffbreasted sandpiper's bill,— and it 

 fines ofl" towards the end suddenly, and the tip is sharp and pointed. The legs are 

 black, whereas in the dunlin the legs are a little inclined to a paler lone : there is still 



