514 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Tur TRACHBA OF THE SpooxBi.t.—At p.488 Mr. H. Langton reports 
the capture of two Spoonbills, in which the trachea was not convoluted in 
the usual way into a figure-of-eight shape. I have a young Spoonbill, shot 
at Yarmouth in 1871, which I carefully examined, and in which this 
peculiarity certainly did not exist. I examined two which I obtained in 
Egypt, and found only a very slight flexure of the windpipe. One of them 
was certainly a young bird, and I think the other was. I have no doubt 
that, as Yarrell says, the absence of this peculiarity is a sign of immaturity.— 
J. H. Gurney, Jun. (Northrepps, Norwich). 
Kine Ermer at tHe Farne Istanps.—In one of my migration 
schedules recently received from the Inner Farne Lighthouse I find this 
entry :—‘‘ May 29th. King Hider seen this evening (being the first for 
several years).” ‘lo this my very intelligent informant, Mr. ‘Thos. Cutting, 
the Priucipal of the lighthouse, adds the following note:—*'lhe bird 
mentioned in my report of the 29th April was seen by several of the 
fishermen about ten days before, or a fortnight before I saw it. It was often 
seen both flying and swimming with the common Eider ducks. When 
swimming it was noticed to be in company with a duck of a cream-coloured 
plumage (quite different from the Eider duck), which was supposed to be 
the female of the same species.” As the female of the King [ider so 
nearly resembles that of the common species as to be quite indistinguishable 
at a short distance, this duck of “a cream-coloured plumage” could not 
be the mate of the King Eider, and raises some little doubt as to the 
authenticity of the occurrence of the rare visitant. Mr. Hancock, in his 
‘Birds of Nosthumberland,’ records the occurrence of a male and female 
King Eider in the summer of 18738 at the Farne Islands.—JoHn ConDEaux 
(Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolushire). 
Great Crested Gress NEAR Leeps.—During the second week in 
September I was informed that a couple of Grebes were to be seen on 
Waterloo Lake, Roundhay Park. On the 18th of that month my brother 
and I visited the above-mentioned place, and found them to be a pair of the 
Great Crested Grebe. We watched them for some time, and with the aid 
of a field-glass, were able to observe them very distinctly. ‘These birds are 
very scarce in this neighbourhood. -We also saw a brood of young Water- 
hens, apparently not more than a week old. I have never met with young 
Waterhens so late in the year before —Watrer Raine (Leeds). 
Henronrtes IN IngLtanp.—In addition to the list of Heronries in 
Ireland given by Mr. Harting in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1874, I may add 
that there is one at Tower Hill, Pallas Grean, Co. Limerick. There are 
about fifteen or twenty nests, some of them great piles of sticks built at the 
tops of lofty Scotch firs.—Witiiam W. FLemyne (18, Upper Fitzwilliam 
Street, Dublin). 
