The Zoologist— June, 1871. 2643 



and tame bird, any that do visit us could not escape being shot. — H. Blake- 

 Knox; Dublin. 



Erratum. — In the 4th line of my previous record of the occurrence of this 

 bird, /or washing read walking. — H. B.-K. 



White Storks near lydd.— On the ISih of March (as I learn from 

 Mr. Gasson) a white stork was shot by Mr. Hearsfield at a low swampy 

 place near Lydd, in Kent, called " Fairfield Brack," within forty rods of 

 •where a black stork was shot fifteen years ago (Zool. 5160). These birds 

 were preserved by Mr. G. Jell, who on the 10th of May sent to me a white 

 stork in the flesh, which was killed about the 8th, by Mr. James Lording, in 

 the parish of Midley, also close to Lydd. It was walking about in a field 

 quite away from any water, and four or five miles from the sea. As noticed 

 in * The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society ' (vol. ii. p. 19), 

 the primary quiUs " offer a very singular and indeed unique disposition, 

 being separated from each other, so as to leave a vacant space between." — 

 J. H. 6rurney,jun. 



Brent Geese Inland. — On the 3rd of March a farmer's son named 

 Grant, residing at Arran, a village near Beverley, some fourteen miles from 

 the sea, and about the same distance from the Humber, brought me a brent 

 goose, which he had shot in a field near that place. The bird was only in 

 poor condition, and perhaps had been previously wounded. He told me it 

 was the second one of the same kind that he had shot there, having, about 

 two years ago, killed one out of a flock composed of ten birds. These are 

 the only instances in which I have known this goose to be shot so far 

 inland in this district, having always considered it strictly oceanic. I may 

 here mention that, brent geese have visited the Humber this winter in 

 greater numbers than for many years past : I myself when at Spurn, on the 

 18th of January, saw hundreds of them. They are easily distinguished 

 from ducks by their high sterns and white under tail-coverts, also by the 

 grunting noise they are constantly making. — F. Boyes. 



Hoopers in East Yorlisbire. — Since my last communication on the 

 hoopers in this neighbourhood, in the February number of the 'Zoologist' 

 (S. S. 2486), many more flocks have been seen and a good number of birds 

 shot — all of them, I believe, with one or two exceptions, old ones. The 

 fearful storm which visited this coast on the 10th of February drove inland 

 many flocks of hoopers, and four or five were shot on our river the following 

 day. I greatly regret that so many of these fine-looking and harmless birds 

 should have been destroyed. I hear that two were taken alive in this 

 riding, and it would appear they were driven about by the storm until 

 exhausted, and were then found helpless in a small ditch, from whence, by 

 reason of its narrowness and the height of the banks, they were unable to 

 rise, and were easily secured : they were not both found in the same ditch, 

 but under very similar circumstances. To give anything like a list of the 

 birds slain would be too tedious ; sufiice it to say, that the oldest shooter 



