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only species not British I have taken are Anthocharis belemia aud 
Syrichthus lavertere. Larve of P. crategi, B. neustria, D. ceruleocephala, 
E. lanestris, and an unknown ‘ egger,’ are very numerous, and I daresay a 
few ‘ blues’ and grass-feeding Satyride will turn up later on. The weather 
here is very unsettled; one day it is bright and hot, with scarcely any 
wind, and the thermometer up to 70°, and the next day it is cloudy, cold, 
and blowing, with thermometer down to 55°. I have written to my agents 
to send me out a breech-loading walking-stick gun, with dust-shot and 
cartridges, as I should like to skin a few of these small birds while they are 
in their summer plumage; but this is a tiny den of a place; it is most 
difficult to do anything, or to stow away things.”—Murray A. MarHEew 
(The Vicarage, Bishop’s Lydeard, near Taunton). 
An Oup List or LincotysHtre Brrps.—When amusing myself not 
long since in the British Museum Reading Room, I took down from one of 
the shelves a volume entitled ‘ Notitig Lude@; or, Notices of Louth.’ It 
was published anonymously in 1834, and I have no idea who was the 
author. At page 283 is a.list of the birds of the district, prefaced by 
this remark :—*“I observe no other order than that by which I became 
acquainted with them. Game and such birds as are common I omit; 
nor is it pretended that I have become acquainted with all the birds which 
may be seen in the neighbourhood.” Amongst the species named are the 
following :—Long-legged Plover, Crane, Soland Goose, Hoopoe (rare), Egret, 
Avoset, Gaubet [quere Gambet, i. ¢. Redshank], Dotterel (plentiful), Spoon- 
bill, Black Wren [quere Black Tern], Shrimp-catcher or Shoveller, Pop- 
pinjay [?], Stork (three times in ten years), Ospray, Ptarmigan (! ?], Sarcelle 
(rare) [!]. This book having been privately printed is probably not well 
known to ornithologists, and for this reason, no doubt, escaped the notice 
of my friend the author of ‘The Birds of the Humber District.’ It is to 
be regretted that the writer ‘‘ omitted such birds as are common,” for it is 
always interesting to compare the former zoological aspect of a district with 
its present fauna; and birds that may have been common enough in the 
neighbourhood of Louth forty-four years ago may be rare, or even unknown 
there at the present time. With regard to some of the names above given 
one can only speculate as to the species intended. For example, it is by no 
means clear what birds are referred to under the names “ Poppinjay,’ 
« Ptarmigan,” and “ Sarcelle.” The ‘‘ Poppinjay,” I believe, is generally 
identified with a Parrot of some kind, and in Heraldry is always so 
represented ; but the author of ‘ Notitie Lud@’ may have bestowed this name 
on the Jay, possibly under the impression that the name Jay is an abbrevia- 
tion. Were I not writing these lines away from home and all my books and 
papers, I might be able to refer to a memorandum of having somewhere read 
a description or allusion to the Poppinjay which pointed to its identity with 
