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treated in the same way. I have seen six or seven all feeding in like 
manner at the same time. I never noticed a great tit do this, but they may 
do for all that.—F’. Boyes. 
Rock Dove at Instow.—During the recent gales I one morning noticed 
a rock dove on the sand-hills at Instow, and heard of a flock of upwards of 
“thirty having been seen in a stubble-field a few miles inland.—Murray A. 
Mathew. 
Extraordinary Vitality in a Partridge.—When forming one of a shooting 
party near here a circumstance occurred that is perhaps worth meution. 
A beater, being a short distance behind, put up a partridge, which flew in a 
peculiar manner, and shortly alighted again, seeing which one of the party 
turned back with the beater to shoot it, but it allowed the latter to strike it 
with his stick; it was then killed and shown to me, when the cause of its 
short wavering flight was at once apparent, for I found both eyes had been 
shot completely out and both mandibles of the beak broken, while the upper 
had grown considerably longer than the lower one, and both were united 
again, but broke with a slight pressure. This frightful injury must have 
been inflicted a month previously, and I think it remarkable that the poor 
creature had been enabled to procure sustenance and maintain an existence 
with such extensive injuries, to say nothing about being completely blind. 
Still the bird was not nearly in such bad condition as I should have thought. 
Is it probable that other members of the covey had fed it? as I can scarcely 
conceive it possible for it to have pecked grain, or even green food, with its 
beak shattered to atoms. I was sorry I did not open it and see what had 
formed its diet.—F’. Boyes. 
Sclavonian Grebe in East Yorkshire.— On the 29th of October last 
Mr. Robert Crowe, of Flamborough, shot a Sclavonian grebe in full summer 
plumage. It was swimming in the sea quite near the shore, and is in 
splendid feather, showing no sign of change, except a few white feathers 
intermixed with the reddish chesnut ones on the front part of the neck 
joining the breast. Dissection proved it to be an adult female, and it would 
appear that amongst the grebes some few of the old birds retain much of 
their summer dress through the winter. The stomach contained, as usual, 
a quantity of silky hairs and feathers off the bird’s breast, and the remains 
of a large black beetle.—Jd. 
Great Northern Diver in Bridlington Bay.—A friend of mine, Mr. Carter, 
of this town, shot a fine specimen of the great northern diver (Colymbus 
glacialis) in Bridlington Bay in the second week in October; the bird made 
its appearance, after a dive, with a fish in its beak, about forty yards from the 
boat. Mr. Carter also procured a specimen of the gannet the same day.— 
W. E. Clarke; 20, De Grey Road, Leeds, November 23, 1874. 
Correction of an Error.— Allow me to correct an error which inad- 
yertently appeared in ‘The Field’ of October 31st, and has been copied 
