2848 The Zoologist — November, 1871. 



flycatchers chose it as a site for their nest in the early part of May, and 

 hatched their young and reared them. The nest is composed of wool, moss, 

 a few hairs, &c., and is quite sunk in the body. Should you like to see it, 

 I will have the bough cut off and sent up to your ofi&ce. This nest is, 

 I may add, mentioned in the ' Field' of (I think) May 20th, but by some 

 mistake it is there described as being a chaffinch's. — W. A. Forbes; 

 Culverlea, Winchester, October 8, 1871. 



Dipper at Rye aud Bridlington. — Last month, at the house of Mr. 

 Gasson, naturalist. Rye, I saw a dipper, which had been killed near there. 

 T deem its occurrence worth recording for the sake of locahty. It possessed 

 the usual chestnut band on the lower part of the breast. I picked uj» one 

 ■which was devoid of this colour, — or possessing only the faintest tinge, — in 

 a birdstuffer's shop at Biidlington, near which place it was shot. I have no 

 doubt about this example being the Ciuclus melanogaster of Gould's ' Birds 

 of Europe,' aud the first recognized out of Norfolk. — J. H. Ourney,jun. 



White's Tlirnsh in Norfolk. — On the evening of the 10th instant I received 

 a beautiful specimen of this very rare species from the Rev. S. Micldethwaite, 

 of Hickling, who, in reply to my communication, informed me it had just 

 been killed by Mr. F. Borrett in a marsh in that parish. This is the first 

 instance on record of the occurrence of White's thrush in this county : it 

 therefore affords me great pleasure in placing this vara avis as an additional 

 species to our rich list of Norfolk birds. In examining the bird I made the 



following notes : — 



Inches. 



Total length from tip of beak to end of tail - - - 125 



Tip to tip of fuUy extended wings ..... 80j 



Wing from carpal joint to tip ..... 6| 



TaU ......... 5 



Beak : length along ridge of upper mandible - - - ly'j 



„ width at base ...... j 



Tibia ........ 2| 



Tarsus ........ 1^"^ 



Outer toe and claw ...... j^ 



Middle „ ....... 1/^ 



Inner ,, ....... || 



Hinder ,, ....... Ij 



Weight, 6 J ounces. 



Beak : upper mandible brown, paler at tip ; lower mandible yellowish 

 brown, with faint pinkish tinge. Irides dark hazel, nearly black. The 

 feathers of its head, neck, back, scapulars and upper tail-coverts yellowish 

 brown, tipped with black ; those of the two first-mentioned parts are much 

 paler ; the primary and secondary quill-feathers are dark brown- on the inner 

 web and pale yellow-brown on the outer ; the basal half of the inner web, 

 commencing with the third primaiy, is of a grayish tinge, and each feather 

 in succession attains a clearer hue up to the seventh, which is pure white ; 



