THE ZooLocist—NovemBER, 1875. 4689 
New European Bird.—My friend the Hofrath Von Heuglin writes me 
word :—* I have received from the south of Russia specimens of Calamodyta 
agricola (Ferd.) = Salicaria capistrata (Sevenzow), found by Sevenzow also 
in Turkestan. It is a very good species, easily distinguished by its short 
wings, which are cut in a peculiar manner. It resembles in colour slightly 
Calamodyta palustris. ; 
MEASUREMENTS :— 
Length - - - - - 5 inches English. 
Beak - - - - 2 3 inch 4s 
Wing - - - - : 23 inches ,, 
Tail - - - = . lees a 
Tarsus - = - - - 6°85 ,, a 
‘First quill very short; the third longest; the second about 0:22 of an 
inch shorter than the third, about equal to the seventh; the fourth about 
equal to the third. Superciliary lines very pronounced, white. First quill 
as long as the greater wing-coverts. The first tail-feather a quarter of an 
inch shorter than the fourth. At the base of the beak above on each side 
three bristles sufficiently long. Pileus dark brown circumscribed.”—C. R. 
Bree; Colchester, October 13, 1875. 
Rare Birds at Mamborough.—I was at Flamborough on the 27th of 
September, and called on Mr. Bailey, who kindly showed me the following 
rare birds, which he had killed near Flamborough Head this autumn :— 
A little gull, adult; a rednecked grebe, in almost perfect summer dress, 
and a splendid adult pomarine skua: this bird had the straw-coloured neck, 
the under parts nearly white, and the central tail-feathers projecting quite 
three inches. Mr. Bailey informed me that an adult ivory gull had been 
killed in Filey Bay during August, and preserved by Mr. Brown. The 
following week I was at Filey, and asked Mr. Brown for further particulars 
of this rare gull; he told me it was a fine old male, and was killed in the 
bay, about a mile and a half from shore. During nineteen years’ experience 
he had never met with one before. I noticed in Mr. Brown’s shop two 
adult glaucous gulls, which had been killed during the severe weather last 
winter; and also, I am sorry to say, a pair of splendid peregrines, male 
and female, which would no doubt have bred on the cliffs had their lives 
been spared.— Julian G. Tuck; The Old Vicarage, Ebberston, York. 
Migratory Birds at Port Said.—This is the season of arrival from Europe 
of quail and various migratory birds; they come to enjoy a hot climate, and 
warm is the reception they obtain on arrival. All who can walk, I was 
going to say, but certainly all who have a gun, are up in arms, and a keen 
sportsman showed me a new gun, which has just cost him ten shillings. 
I could not help feeling, on looking into his well-filled bag, that, be it Purdey 
or my friend’s “ gas-pipe,” it is all the same to the quails, though the life, 
no doubt, of one will be saved at some time or other by the “ gas-pipe” going 
