OCCASIONAL NOTES. 457 
GREBES OCCURRING 1N THE I #roxe IstaAnps.—In some notes on 
“The Birds of the Feeroe Islands,” pnblished by me in ‘ The Zoologist,’ 
1872, page 3256, a mistake occurs in the scientific name of one of the 
Grebes recorded in that list. 'The Horned or Sclavonian Grebe, P, cornutus 
(Gmelin), is a tolerably common autumnal and winter visitor to the group. 
I have, or had, a specimen captured in October, 1871—the one referred to 
in my above-quoted notes—and another captured in March, 1873, near 
Thorshavn ; Mr. Hargitt has two or three specimens in his collection, and 
Miiller writes of it as being a common autumnal visitant to the Feroe 
Islands, though it does not breed there. No specimen of the Eared Grebe, 
P. nigricollis, as far as | am aware, has been obtained in Iceland or the 
Feroes. The trivial name given in my list (page 8256 of the volume for 
1872), viz., “Sclavonian Grebe,” is correct; but the scientific term, 
P. nigricollis, is incorrect, and should be P. cornutus (Gmelin)—H. W. 
FEILDEN. 
Manx SHEARWATER IN OXFORDSHIRE AND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—In 
his note to ‘'The Zoologist’ (p. 426) on the Manx Shearwater, Lord Lilford 
remarks, ‘‘ The weather that can drive such a hardy sea-rover as a Shearwater 
some forty miles inland at this time of year is certainly very exceptional.” 
It is, however, worthy of remark that this is not the first time that the 
Manx Shearwater has been obtained in our district in September. In 1839 
Mr. Goatley, of Chipping Norton, records, at p. 2625 of ‘The Zoologist,’ 
that he captured one alive in September of that year. In 1878, at p.185, of 
this periodical I noticed one in my possession caught, alive, at Chipping 
Norton in the winter of 1872-78. At p. 229 of the volume for the same year 
I recorded two instances—one at Framington, Oxfordshire, in September, 
1877; the other at Chacombe, Northamptonshire, date of capture unknown. 
Another was shot at Wroxton, near Banbury—I-am not sure at what season 
of the year, but I fancy in the winter. In Plot’s ‘ Natural History of 
Oxfordshire’ is the following note :—‘ ‘The Cormorant has been observed 
to come hither about harvest time, whereof there was one killed from 
St. Mary’s steeple (tired with a long flight), an. 1675, and another young 
one taken up in Arncot field, fallen down in the corn, and brought me to 
Oxford.” Mr. J.H. Gurney, Jun., in a letter to me, of August 19th of this 
year, suggests that the young Cormorant which had fallen down in corn 
might have been a Manx Shearwater. If Mr. Gurney’s supposition is correct, 
it will be noticed that from the mention of the corn we may conclude it also 
was obtained in August or September. Since writing the above, Lord 
Lilford has very kindly sent me an extract from his note-book concerning 
a second Manx Shearwater in Northamptonshire,—* Shearwater, caught 
feeding with chickens in Northampton, September, 1866,”—and adds, 
“This bears out your views of. the prevalence of September occurrences of 
this species. Ido not understand why Mr. Gurney should suppose that the 
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