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some minute white grits« The bird was very fat. I have since learned that 
a considerable number were always to be found on the irrigation land near 
this town last winter. A friend who owns the shooting informed me that he 
must have shot close upon twenty couple last year—C. Marranw Prior 
(Bedford). 
Lirrtz Avx 1x Norrinenamsurre.—About the end of November last 
a gamekeeper near Mansfield picked up a Little Auk under the telegraph- 
wires, which had evidently killed itself by flying against them. The bird 
having been carried about for several days was in a bad state, and the back 
of the head had been nearly cut off by the wire. I am having it set up, 
however, as well as it can be done, for it is remarkable that such a bird 
should be found so far inland, the place being quite fifty miles from the 
sea. Its occurrence, no doubt, is due to the rough winds we had about 
that time. A boy going into the birdstuffer's a few days afterwards, on 
seeing the bird, said he had seen another like it, which was found about the 
same time.—J. Wuiraker (Rainworth Lodge, Mansfield). . 
KirtiwAke IN BrprorpsuirE.—On the 31st December I killed a Kitti- 
wake within the borough boundaries of this town. I was returning home, 
and saw the bird skimming over a grass-field by the road. Not knowing 
what it was, I shot it, when it proved to be an adult bird of the above 
species. Owing to the open weather, wild fowl are scarce; but Golden 
Plovers and Lapwings are very common. I have not heard of any rarities.— 
C. Marruew Prior (Bedford). 
Correction or Errors.—lIf not too late, I should feel obliged by your 
permitting me to point out the following errors in my “ Birds of the Moy 
Estuary” (3rd ser., vol. i.):—P. 234, Greenland Falcon; it was in the 
winter of 1862-63, instead of 1868, that the Belmullet bird was obtained. 
P. 237, Missel Thrush; for “seen in parks” read ‘‘seen in flocks” in 
September they are often mistaken for Fieldfares. P. 287, Green Sand- 
piper; it was on the 25th August, 1873, not 1874, that Mr. More shot his 
specimen of this bird. P. 287, Greenshank; for “ probably breeds on some 
of the little bay-lakes” read “bog-lakes."— Robert Warren (Moyview, 
Ballina, County Mayo). 
Morris's Targ-FisH at PENnNAN, ABERDEENSHIRE.-—A very fine speci- 
men of the above fish, Leptocephalus Morrisii, over six inches in length, 
was picked up from the beach at Pennan (sometimes spelt “ Pennant”) on 
January 8th, by Mr. Ferguson, Inspector of the Coastguard Station there. 
It was alive when found and continued so for some time after. I am not 
aware if the species.has been found on the Aberdeenshire coast before, but 
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