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them closely. On the last day of my stay at Northam, the 28th of October, 

 I shot a snow bunting, within a few yards of the spot where T had obtained 

 two specimens of the same species in two preceding years, at about the same 

 period of the year ; the present specimen, however, is far handsomer and 

 much less advanced towitrds the winter plumage than any in my collection 

 shot at the same time of year. — Marcus S. C. Rickards ; January 11, 1871. 



TTbitcfronted Goose at Cliddesden. — A fine male specimen of this goose 

 was shot by Mr. T. Palmer, at Cliddesden, on the '28th of Deceml)er, 1870. 

 It was first observed by a shejdierd, in company with another bird of the 

 same species: they settled in a turnip-field, and stayed there very quietly 

 for two or three hours. When Mr. Palmer went to them they both got up 

 and flew ofl" in an opposite direction, but some man passing along the road 

 turned them back to him ; they flew over his head, and he succeeded in 

 shooting the one nearest to him : the other bird, being considerably higher 

 was out of shot. He tells me it flew over its dead companion several times, 

 at a considerable height. — Anthony S. Bradby. 



Canada Goose at Glastonbury. — I had the opportunity of examining, 

 to-day, at the shop of Mr. Charbonnier, the birdstuffer here, a fine specimen 

 of the Canada goose, which he had received from Glastonbury', near which 

 place it had been shot towards the end of last week. It was a male bird 

 and in very fine plumage and condition. This is, I think, the first reported 

 occurrence of this species iu this county, as I do not find it noticed by Mr. 

 Cecil Smith in his 'Birds of Somersetshire.' — Marcus S. C. Rickards; 

 January 18, 1871. 



Canada Goose at Enys, near Penryn. — Mr. F. Enys shot a fine-plumaged 

 bird of this species at his place near Falmouth, on Friday last, and sent it 

 to me. You can of course note the occurrence, but I have (perhaps wrong- 

 fully) an opinion averse to this bird's legitimate claim to belong to our 

 Fauna. The specimen now under notice has every appearance, in the 

 character and state of its plumage, of a wild bird. — Edward Hearle 

 Rodd; January 23, 1871. 



Hoopers in East Yorkshire. — On the 5th of January last a flock of 

 fifteen hoopers was seen to alight on our river by two shootei"s, named 

 Thomas Holmes and George Brown : these persons were enabled, by means 

 of the shelter afforded by the river bank, to approach within fifteen or twenty 

 yards of them, when they succeeded in shooting two, and also in so severely 

 wounding a third that it was afterwards picked up dead in a plantation not 

 far from the place where they shot at them. The men say the hoopers 

 made a great noise before they pitched, and i-eminded them of a pack of 

 fox-hounds. One of these birds is a splendid old male, measuring over 

 5 feet in length, 7 feet 8 inches in expanse of wings, and weighed SO? lbs. 

 The other two were females and much smaller in size : both of them have 

 rust-coloured spots on the back of the head, yet they both appear to be old 



