144 THE ZOOLOGISTY. 
Manx SHEARWATER InLAND.—Early in September last, as some miners 
were proceeding to work one morning at Lofthouse, near Wakefield, they 
observed a bird endeavouring to flutter over a wall into an adjoining plan- 
tation. They easily captured it, and kept it alive for some days, when it 
was killed and seut to me for identification and preservation. I at first 
took it to be the rarer Dusky Petrel; but your opinion, as you have seen 
the bird, induces me to change my view. As it was found at so great a 
distance from the sea, the circumstance, as above narrated, may be worth 
recording.—J. Spur.ine (42, Northgate, Wakefield). 
Sincutar Deara or A Biue ‘TirmousE.—A curious circumstance came 
under my notice the other day. While walking along a hedgeside in my 
meadow, | observed a Blue Tit dangling from a twig; it had got its head 
through a noose of hair which was entangled in the bushes, and had 
fluttered about till it had twisted the hair quite tight. I saw it some 
considerable distance off struggling to get free, but by the time I got to the 
place it was very nearly dead, aud expired shortly afterwards.—J. Kane 
(Langford Road, Biggleswade). 
Gry SHRIKE, Raven, AND GOOSANDER IN THe West OF KNGLAND.— 
It may interest some of your readers to note the occurrence in the 
West of England of the following birds, which have been sent to me 
for preservation :—A Great Grey Shrike, obtained near Malvern; an adult 
male Raven, shot near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire; and an adult male 
Goosander, killed at Hinton Blewitt, near Bristol —H. Wurre (The 
Museum, Cheltenham). 
CHIFFCHAFY REMAINING IN ENGLAND DURING THE WinrEeR.—A Chiff 
chaff was shot at Barton Grange, near ‘Taunton, about the commencement 
of the present year, and was in very good condition. Strange that it 
should have remained here throughout such an unusually severe winter.— 
Murray A. Marnew (Bishop’s Lydeard, Taunton). 
Tue Berps or YorKsHtre.—In the ‘ Transactions of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union,’ Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, of Leeds, has commenced a 
Catalogue of the Birds of Yorkshire, in which full details are given con- 
cerning the occurrence of the rarer species. Should any of our readers be 
able to furnish Mr. Clarke with information likely to be useful to him, we 
make no doubt he will be pleased to receive and acknowledge it. His 
address is 5, East View, Hyde Park, Leeds. 
Great Busrarp 1x Kssex: Correcrion or an Ernror.—In ‘The 
Zoologist’ for January last (p. 26) Mr. Smoothy reports a Great Bustard 
shot by Mr. A. Pertwee at Woodham Ferrers, near Hull Bridge, on the 
5th December last. In a succeeding number (p. 110) Mr. Travis refers to 
a Great Bustard “ procured by Mr. Porter near Chelmsford” also on 
