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Sabine’s Snipe, but not so dark in colour; the dark bars across the breast 
are well marked, and are continued down to the vent. The tail contained only 
eleven feathers, but some may have been shot away.—WitttaMs & Son. 
[If we understand Messrs. Williams correctly, the specimen in question 
may be said to be intermediate in form and colour between the Common 
Snipe and the so-called Sabine’s Snipe. If so, we should much like to see 
it.— Ep. ] 
GotpEN Eacre near Kitrarnry.—So seldom is this noble species 
now seen at Killarney, that it is not without regret I have to record the 
capture of a fine female bird, apparently in the second year's plumage, 
which was shot while flying over the Earl of Kenmare’s deer park, about 
the middle of November last, by Denis Healy, one of the gamekeepers. 
The bird is now in the hands of Mr. Williams, the well-known taxidermist, 
in Dame Street, Dublin. The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaétus) though 
commonly supposed to be no longer indigenous to Killarney, is yet not 
unfrequently observed in the mountainous parts of Kerry; and as I myself 
have, on more than one occasion, seen the bird hunting along the mountain 
sides, which border on the lakes, early in the spring, I believe there is good 
reason to suppose that the Golden Eagle still breeds in some of the less 
frequented parts of the district—Anrraur H. Bowzzs (99, Lower Mount 
Street, Dublin). 
GotpEn Eacie, RovcH-LEGcED Buzzarp, &c., NEAR WoopBRIDGE.— 
During November and December, 1876, a beautiful specimen of the young 
of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaétus) was taken, together with eight 
specimens of the Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus), in the neighbour- 
hood of Woodbridge, Suffolk. On the 14th of December a beautiful male 
Merlin (Falco e@salon) was shot on the ooze skirting the banks of the 
Woodbridge river. On thé 18th of December a female, from the same 
place, was obtained; and on the 19th of December a second female was 
shot near the same spot. A Hobby (Falco subbuteo) I watched for 
several minutes, after having first disturbed him from trees, perched on 
a gate-post abutting on stubble upon which a large flock of Linnets were 
feeding.—Cuartes Moor (Great Bealings, Woodbridge, Suffolk). 
A Porn Wurre Jay.—On the 20th of October, Mr. Ripley, the bird- 
stuffer here, showed me a young Jay, pure white, which had been shot 
within a few miles of York, a few days before. He had another of the 
ordinary colour, which was out of the same nest. The former had not a 
single coloured feather about it, but the whole of the plumage was of a 
-uniform pure white. The legs of this bird were also of a whitish colour, as 
well as the bill; the iris, too, was of a very light colour, in fact almost 
white. . Albinos of this species, I believe, are rare—R. M. Curisty (York). 
PuEasants iv New Zeatanp.—It would seem that pheasants are now 
fairly established in Southern New Zealand, and are tolerably numerous. 
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