Tue ZooLocist—APRIL, 1876. 4863 
A very fine old male goosander shot on the river to-day; and on 
the 13th another old male and a young male were both shot in the 
neighbourhood of Burton Agnes, near Bridlington. 
Rednecked Grebe.—10th. A rednecked grebe, female, shot on 
the river. The stomach, as usual, was crammed with the feathers 
off its own breast, mixed with part of the backbone ofa fish ana 
a few pieces of vegetable substances. 
Brambling.—24th. Saw a very large flock of bramblings con- 
taining some hundreds of birds: there have been numbers feeding 
beneath the beech trees lately. 
Birds at Spurn and on the Humber.—27th. Weather extremely 
mild. Took a run down to Spurn—a place I have been in the 
habit of visiting for many years. There were numbers of snow 
buntings, many of them fine old birds. Saw a merlin and a stone- 
chat. Very few birds on the mudflats—a few small flocks of knots, 
dunlins, curlews, &c.; but very few in comparison with what I have 
generally seen. On the Humber there were hundreds of ducks,— 
flocks that would almost cover an acre of ground,—and when they 
rose it was like distant thunder; they seemed principally what are 
called by the natives “black pokker” (scaups, &c.), though I saw 
a number of wigeon, mallards, &c.; and at night, along with the 
“whee-u” of the wigeon and “quack” of the wild duck, [ heard 
once or twice the “creck” of the teal. 
Wild-fowl in the Game Shops.—Where did all the wild-fowl 
come from that were to be seen in game-shops last November and 
December? Manchester, Birmingham, and all the large towns 
were supplied with immense numbers of ducks, teal, woodcocks, 
snipes, plovers, &c., and teal, I am told, were offered in Birmingham 
at fourpence each. This district could have contributed only a 
very small share of them. ‘There must have been great slaughter 
somewhere. 
F. Boyes. 
Beverley, East Yorkshire. 
Notes from West Sussex. By W. Jerrery, Esq. 
NovEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1875. 
Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus).—A bird of the year was killed 
at Sidlesham on the 10th of November, and within a few days a 
second specimen in the same locality: the former I saw in the 
