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arundinaceus and stveperus are adjectives. The British form of Parus 
ater, L., and Acredula caudata (L.) I have not recognized, because in such 
a matter I am content to accept the conclusions of Professor Newton, as 
given in his revision of Yarrell’s standard work. The authority of Brehm 
for Regulus ignicapillus rests on the statement of Temminck, in his 
‘Manuel’ published in 1820. Jenyns certainly, in the work quoted by your 
reviewer, wrote “nob.” after the name in 1835: but as he quotes Tem- 
minck’s long previous usage of the same name, he was probably merely 
alluding to himself as having been the first to identify the bird in this 
country in 1832. On the testimony of Mr. Dresser (‘ Birds of Europe,’ 
parts 47 and 48) and Professor Newton, Tunstall in 1771 did forestall 
Gmelin’s description of Falco pereyrinus in 1788. In ‘The Ibis’ for last 
July (p. 332) the reviewer will find that Mr. J. H: Gurney has satisfied 
himself that the two Spotted Eagles killed in Cornwall were both of them 
examples, not of Aguila nevia (Gm.), but of Aquila clanga (Pallas). 
Mr. Howard Saunders has given satisfactory reasons (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876) 
why the name Sterna macrura, Naumann, should take precedence of Sterna 
hirundo, L. In Mr. Dresser’s ‘ Birds of Europe,’ parts 59 and 60, it is 
shown that Briinnich’s Guillemot cannot be called Alcea arra, for under that 
name Pallas referred to a totally distinct species. In thus replying to the 
invitation of my reviewer, I cannot in courtesy conclude without expressing 
my thanks to him for pointing out the mistaken admission of Hreunetes 
pusillus (I.). The species should indeed rightly have appeared as Tringa 
minutilla, Vieillot (1819); for it may be observed that Wilson's name 
pusilla (1813) cannot stand, on account of its previous application by 
Linneus to a species since shown to be distinct—Hunry T. Wuarron. 
GREEN SANDPIPER IN THE Co. Mayo.—On the 30th September a Green 
Sandpiper appeared here, and took up its quarters ata little pool close to 
the shore. I made several unsuccessful attempts to shoot it; but, owing 
to its wildness, I was unable to do so until the 4th October. It proved 
to be a young bird, probably on its southward migration. ‘The little pool is 
about thirty yards in length by six or eight in width, and is separated by a 
wall from the shores of the Estuary. On the other side it is surrounded by 
low trees, having a few yards of flat grassy bank between the water and 
trees. It appears to have some special attraction for Green Sandpipers, for 
the only birds of that species obtained or seen in this district were all 
observed at the same spot. ‘Ihe first Green Sandpiper I ever met with I 
shot there on the 12th January, 1866; and on the 25th August, 1873, my 
friend Mr. A. G. More saw a pair there, one of which he shot. The bird 
above mentioned as having been obtained on the 4th of last October makes 
the fourth seen here and the third specimen obtained. The extreme 
quickness of sight and wild flight are well and graphically described by 
Mr. Harvie Brown in his notice of the Green Sandpiper in Stirlingshire 
