496 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
I believe the month of August never passes without some visiting their 
favourite haunts in the first mere. Several Black-tailed Godwits have 
been seen and four killed, two of which, both immature birds, were brought 
to me, one on the 24th August and the other on the Ist September. I had 
a good opportunity of watching a small party of four in the first mere early 
one morning. I have never met with these birds before, and have only 
seen one specimen in the flesh, which I recorded in ‘The Zoologist’ for 
1871. On the 6th September I killed an adult Red-necked Grebe in the 
River Iken, and on the evening of the same day I had a young Shoveller 
Duck, two Turnstones, and a curious light-coloured variety of the Sand 
Martin brought in by one of the gunners. A Temminck’s Stint and two 
beautiful Sanderlings were killed at Thorpe on the 8th September, all of 
which I obtained. I met with a flock of Curlew Sandpipers in the North 
Mere on the 10th, and shot two, both young birds. On the 26th I received 
an immature male Ruff, a Little Stint, and a Temminck’s Stint from 
Aldeburgh.—Jutian G. Tuck (Tostock House, near Bury St. Edmunds). 
WaDERS NEAR ALDERSHOT.—The large piece of water known as “ Fleet 
Pond,” near Aldershot Camp, through which the South-Western Railway 
runs, between Farnborough and Fleet Stations, has recently been almost 
emptied for the purpose of destroying the weeds. These had grown to such 
an extent that the fishing was virtually at an end. The pen-stock was 
opened on the 17th August, and has been closed about three weeks or so. 
As we have had little or no rain up to the present date (12th October) there 
is still very little water in the pond, and a large expanse of mud and sand 
continues to offer unusual attractions to various Waders and Ducks. 
Besides Curlews, Green Sandpipers, Dunlins, Gulls, a stray Tern or two, 
Snipe, and a considerable accession of Ducks, Herons and Lapwings, we 
have had several more noteworthy visitors. On the 23rd August I observed 
three Greenshanks and shot one for identification; on the 27th September 
there were two Ruffs, of which I shot one (this is, I think, somewhat late 
for this species to remain with us); and on the 6th inst. I obtained a Gray 
Plover, which had been badly wounded by an officer there. I previously 
saw two of them together, both on the ground and on the wing, but could 
not be sure of their identity: this is a rare bird so far inland. The Herons, 
of which as many as twenty sometimes assemble in the shallow water, are 
doing considerable damage to the fish, and are having a rare time of it. 
So also are the Carrion Crows,—which feed greedily on the large fresh- 
water mussels left exposed by the receding waters,—the Snipe, and the 
Ducks. Of the latter family I have only seen one stranger, which I think 
was a Tufted Duck; most of them are common Wild Ducks from Dogmers- 
field Park and Hawley Pond.—Savite G. Rein. 
Youne THRUsH FEEDING a Cuckoo.—About two years ago, when 
staying at Bassenthwaite, near Keswick, where I had gone for a couple 
