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any of the remains discovered, whose antiquity is believed to be considerable. 
Further researches in the same locality may possibly be productive of 
interesting results.—‘ Nature.’ 
Notes on Cranes.—I shall make no apology for referring again to a short 
paper on the migration of cranes which marked the year 1869 (S. S. 1841) 
which I drew up at the request of the Editor, where I have stated that I 
received a very fine specimen—it weighed ten anda half pounds—in July, 
from Hickham Moor, near Lincoln This bird is decidedly older than my 
Cheltenham example (S.S. 1803), which only weighed eight pounds and 
three quarters. It agrees pretty fairly witha specimen in the Lynn Museum, 
which was one of the same flight, and which, though supposed at the time to 
be a young female (S. S. 1910), is, I suspect, an old one in change, and also 
with a specimen in my collection which the late Dr. Saxby shot in Shetland 
in 1865, and of the chase and capture of which he has given one of the 
most graphic descriptions I ever read (Zool. 9767—9772); where, among 
other things, he mentions the ova of some kind of parasite on the axillary 
feathers; and, again, he observes the same thing on another specimen 
(Zool. S.S..1764). Both mine were infested in this way. According to the 
late Mr. Denny it would be the ova of Lipeurus ebreus (Mon. Anopl. Brit. 
179, pl. xiii.), an opinion confirmed by Mr. Cocking, to whom I submitted 
them. Mr. Newcome, of Feltwell, has a crane unlike any that I ever saw. 
It has a white neck and back, and is white spotted all over. It was shot in 
1836, and is the first one mentioned in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk’ (vol. ii., 
p. 128)—J. Gurney, jun. 
Purple Heron in Norfolk.—In my note on the species in the last number 
of the ‘ Zoologist’ (S.S 4775), I described the bird as “ recorded by Lord 
Kimberley in ‘Land and Water’ of October 28rd,” whereas I should 
have said, recorded by the Rev. F. O. Morris, on the authority of Lord 
Kimberley. His lordship, in a letter to Mr. Morris, dated October 15th, 
announces the capture of the heron as “a few days ago,” and not being 
aware of the exact date on which it was shot, I stated in.my note that it was 
just prior to the 15th, the date of Lord Kimberley’s letter. Mr. Gunn, 
however, in his record of the same bird (S. S. 4787), says, it was killed on 
the 25th of September, and brought to him next day in the flesh, by Lord 
Kimberley. I draw attention to the discrepancy in the above statements, 
because the date of capture of a rare species is often important, and it seems 
strange that Lord Kimberley should have written on the 15th of October, 
that the bird was killed “a few days ago,” if it was procured just three 
weeks before.—H. Stephenson ; Norwich, February 21, 1876, 
Night Heron near Kingsbridge.—A young spotted specimen of this bird 
was shot on the 7th of January: it was flushed from a bed of reeds in the 
vicinity of the River Avon. Some twelve years since, in October, I pro- 
cured a similar specimen, except that some of the down was quite visible 
