The Zoologist — March, 1871. 2527 



Andover. Feb. 4th. To-day I had brought to me a Bewick's swan, which 

 had been shot a short distance from here : it is a male bird. Weight lOi fbs. 

 Length 3 feet 10 inches ; spread of wing 6 feet ; carpal joint to end of wing 

 19i inches ; length of bill on the ridge, from the tip to the first feather, 

 8f inches; tip to gape 3i inches. The black on the bill at the sides 

 extends half an inch behind the nostrils and all the length of the ridge, 

 having a few yellow spots intermixed near the base. The second and third 

 quill-feathers are longer than the first and fourth. Number of tail-feathers 

 nineteen. Irides dark ; legs, toes and membranes black. It has a few rust- 

 coloured feathers on the head and breast, which indicate that it is not a 

 fully matured specimen. I saw on Saturday, the 18th instant, at Mr. 

 Eilotson's, Bridlington, an immature Iceland gull, which had been shot by 

 a man when at plough, a few days previous ; and Mr. Ellotson informs me 

 that the crop of this bird was full of the pickings of Swede turnip. — 

 T. Boynton; Ulrome Grange, Lowtlwrpe, Hull, Fehruanj 21, 1871. 



Goosanders aud Smews in Piorfolk. — During the last fortnight I have 

 received several goosanders and smews, shot in various localities in Norfolk, 

 including three most beautiful males of each species in the adult plumage ; 

 the salmon-colouted breasts of the goosanders were extremely lovely. All 

 the specimens were very fat. — T. E. Gunn; Fehruanj 4, 1871. 



Albatross in Derbyshire. — It is stated in a local paper that an albatross, 

 measuring nine feet from tip to tip of its wings, and weighing fifty-six 

 pounds, was shot near Chesterfield on the 2ud instant. — 'Field,'' Nov. 26. 



Albatross in Derbyshire. — I have this morning received a letter from the 

 gentleman who shot the albatross in Derbyshire, and with whom I am 

 acquainted. I send it to you for publication. — Henry Smith; H. Heaton, 

 December 1, 1870. Dear Sir, — I received your letter yesterday respecting 

 the albatross, and I beg to inform you 1 shot this monstrous bird near 

 Claycross Station, and had several shots before I could capture it, having 

 nothing but No. 4 shot to shoot with. I have had it exhibited at Grass- 

 more, likewise at Chesterfield. We measured the bird after capture, and 

 from tip to tip of his wings near nine feet, and three feet six inches in 

 length, and its bill six inches long, and its weight upwards of fifty pounds. 

 This bird is now open for inspection at the " Sportsman Inn," Grassmore, 

 kept by Mr. J. Platts, and will be this week out.— C West; Tupton, 

 November ^<d.—' Field,' December 4, 1870. 



[Mr. Gurney has very properly objected to the first of these records as 

 improbable ; the second, however, cannot be rejected on the single score of 

 improbabiUty. — E. Newman.] 



Rcdneclied Grebe in East Yorlishirc. — On the 0th instant I purchased 

 a good specimen of the rednecked grebe (Podiceps rubricollis), which had 

 been shot on our river a day or two previously. It was an old female, and 

 of course in winter plumage. — F. Boyes ; February 20, 1871. 



