4296 THE ZooLoGistT—JANUARY, 1875. 
Golden Plover.—Noy. 12. The main body appear to pe 
arrived ; numerous and large flocks in the parish. 
Snipe.—Nov. 12. The main flight came with the rough wild 
weather on the night of the 11th. 
Stonechat.—I see several young birds of the year haunting the 
vicinity of the sheep, folded on the turnips and cole. 
JOHN CoRDEAUX. 
Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire. 
November 30, 1874. 
Errata—In my June notes, p. 4224, line 3, for upland read ploughed-land ; 
line 29, for along Sleddale read Long Sleddale; p. 4225, line 5 from bottom, for 
pretensions read persecutions.—J, C. 
Quadripare, a newly-associated Group of Birdss—When, in 1850, 
I-proposed an arrangement of birds founded on physiological characters, 
I suggested the removal of the herons (from among the quadriparous birds, 
where the exigencies of the Quinarian or Vigorsian system required their 
presence) to a station between the Accipitres and Totipalmes, to neither of 
which groups had any one previously perceived that they bore any affinity. 
Two universally recognised groups, the plovers and the snipes, thus become 
contiguous ; but I went no farther than this; I did not propose what now 
appears desirable, namely, that all the quadriparous birds—or those which 
lay four eggs, and four only, and place them with the small ends meeting in 
the middle—should have a descriptive and distinctive name in common, and 
T now venture to suggest the word Quadripare as supplying such a name.— 
Edward Newman. 
Rare Birds in Guernsey.—I have a longeared owl, shot at St. Martin's 
on the 9th of November; a merlin, a female, shot in the Marais, which had 
struck down a water rail a minute or two before it was shot: after striking 
down the rail, the merlin flew into a tree, about ten yards from which the 
man who shot it found the rail dead: he brought me both birds; the skin 
of the rail was broken from the shoulder to the back of the skull. On the 
20th a beautiful little bustard was shot at the back of St. Andrew's, very 
near the place where one was shot fifteen years since; the length of the 
present specimen is seventeen inches and a half; spread of wings thirty- 
seven inches; weight twenty-seven ounces, Guernsey weight. I have the 
first recognised specimen of the siskin; a boy knocked it down with a stone 
in an orchard at the Vrangue, in September.—James Couch ; 7, College 
Street, Guernsey, November 29, 1874. 
Flight of a Male Peregrine at an old Male Hen Harrier.—W hen snipe- 
shooting on the Braunton marshes, a day or two since, a magnificent old 
