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and from what your correspondent says of colour, we may infer that it had 

 a rufous frill the summer before it was killed. — J. E. Harting; 37, Carlton 

 Hill,N.W., October 11, 1871. 



RufTs. — On the 8th of September, at Romney Bay, near Lydd, I killed a 

 young reeve, and, out of the same flock three pigmy curlews, a redshank 

 and some dunlins, which shows how these small waders consort together. 

 On the 13th I got another rufifat Exeter. 1 also received one from Faver- 

 sham, in Kent, and saw three in Leadenhall Market. All immature birds, 

 and very misleading to the beginner. — /. H. Gurney, jun. 



Ruff in Middlesex. — On the 16th of September last I shot a good speci- 

 men of the ruff at Kingsbury Reservoir. It was alone at the time and 

 e.xtremely wary. Condition very fat. I also saw two little stints, and 

 secured one. — F. D. Power; LaJywell, S.E., October 10, 1871. 



Ruffs and Reeves at Yarmouth. — I have this month (September) obtained 

 several good specimens of ruffs and reeves in the autumn plumage, from the 

 neighbourhood of Yarmoutli. — T. E. Gunn. 



Snipe-shooting at St. Mary's, Sciily. — The best bag T have heard of 

 of snipes, at this or any other season, was the result of a day's shooting on 

 the moors at St. Mary's, Sciily, a few days since, when twenty-five couple of 

 full and three couple of jack snipes fell to the guns of Mr. Augustus Pechell 

 and Mr. W. Pendarves.— Efc^imrd Hearle Rodd ; October 17, 1871. 



Solitary Snipes in Norfolk. — Two fine examples, male and female, were 

 shot on the loth of September at Burgh, near Yarmouth ; a third example, 

 a female, was killed at Catfield, near Stalham, on the 21st of the same 

 mouth. All three specimens passed into my hands. — T. E. Gunn. 



Gray Phalaropc at Boultibrook. — A specimen of the gray phalarope 

 {Phalaropus lobatua) was seen by Mr. A. Crichton and myself last Thursday 

 (September 28th) on a small pond near the house. The bird, as usual with 

 individuals of this species, was not at all shy, and allowed us to approach 

 very near whilst it was swimming. It was not molested, and probably took 

 its departure the following day, when we had very heavy rain, which caused 

 a considerable rise in Norton Brook, which forms the pond. — Harford J. 

 Jones Brydges; Boultibrook, October 5, 1871. 



Cormorant breeding Inland. — Mr. Cecil Smith mentions as unusual the 

 appearance of the cormorant inland, and doubtless such may be unusual in 

 most counties of England and Scotland, but in wilder parts of the country 

 the cormorant is known regularly to frequent fresh-water lochs at long 

 distances from the salt water, not only for the purpose of fishing, but also in 

 some few localities for the purpose of breeding. Several hundred pairs lay 

 their eggs annually on the islet of a fresh-water loch in the south of Scotland 

 (see Messrs. Gray and Anderson's ' Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtonshire '). — 

 John A. Harvie Brown. 



