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in this county. It was rapidly assuming its winter dress. It was observed 
swimming about on a pond, and, as is usually the case, was remarkably 
tame. One was also obtained near here during the memorable immigration 
of this species in the autumn of 1866.—C. Marruxw Prior (Bedford). 
VaRInTy OF THE SaANDERLING.—On the 28th August I and a young 
friend observed a small white bird flying in a flock of about twenty others 
on, the sands near Holy Island. We watched them settle, and approached 
the flock from different directions, haying both agreed to shoot at the white 
bird when the flock rose. One bird only fell, which I picked up, an 
old Sanderling; the white bird ‘‘singled” from the flock flying a short 
distance on my friend's side, and when it rose again he killed it. It 
proved to be a Sanderling, but very curiously marked and in perfect 
feather, nearly all white; the centre of the head cream-colour, shaded to 
white, gradually and evenly marked there as elsewhere. The back is pale 
buff, and the outer edges of the outside primaries are rich cream-colour ; 
an even dusky brown V-shaped mark on the back, and the other parts quite 
white ; the beak and legs olive. Jt was very fat, and it was no easy matter 
to keep it clean. However, with great care, I set it up, and it is now as 
clean as can be. Sanderlings were common about this date. The old 
birds first arrive in August in flocks by themselves; they pass on, I 
presume, for I never see them after the end of the month, when the 
young birds arrive. ‘They keep in separate flocks, and after a few days they 
also appear to pass on, for they are afterwards only met with occasionally.— 
C. M. Apamson (North Lesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne). 
SHore Birps on THE Norroik Coasr,—On September 21st Mr. Gunn 
had a. male Grey Plover, with a black breast only slightly broken up with 
white, from Yarmouth, which is a late date for it to have retained its 
summer plumage. A good many Knots and a few Pigmy Curlews have 
been shot at Blakeney during the last week. The Knots were like skeletons, 
having no fat at all upon them, while Sanderlings and Dunlins shot at the 
same time were in good condition. One Pigmy Curlew shot on the 18th, 
by Mr. Ford Barclay, had a cockle on its foot: the bird had evidently 
trodden on it when open, and been caught. A Tern was caught some 
years, ago, near Lynn, in the same mauuver by a mussel, and other similar 
instances have been recorded. On August 11th I received eleven Knots 
in three-parts red plumage from Happisburgh.— J. H. Gurney, Jun. 
Northrepps, Norwich). 
SuproseD Nesting or tue Repwine near Yorx.— Whilst out 
shooting on August 27th I killed a bird which, in the dim evening light, 
looked like a Thrush, but on examining it next day I found it was a young 
Redwing (moulting). The body was a good deal shattered, but the head 
was untouched, and showed the whitish line above the eye very well. "The 
