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which Mr. Boyes alludes to—a cry which at one time much puzzled me 
also.— W. Jeffery. 
Common Scoter at Minehead.— Mr. Greday, birdstuffer, of this town, 
had a common scoter to preserve, which he informed me was caught in a 
sprat-net at Minehead.— Frederick Stansell; Alma Street, Taunton. 
Sabine’s Gull at Bridlington Quay.—On the 14th of October last a capital 
Sabine’s gull was obtained by Mr. Mackin at Bridlington Quay. It was 
very tame, and was shot beside a drain called Watermill Beck. The 
plumage was that of a young bird, with a few dark feathers appearing on 
the occiput, indicative of the hood to come. This is the fourth Sabine’s gull 
which, to my knowledge, has been shot within a few miles of Bridlington. — 
J. H. Gurney, jun. ; Royal Hotel, Scarborough, March 24, 1876. 
Audacity of the Common Skua.— When out dredging off Bangor, in the 
month of September last, I saw a common skua fighting fiercely with a 
herring gull: the gull. was evidently trying to rise above the skua.— 
Thomas Darragh. 
Common Skua near Mansfield—In the last week of November as two 
gentlemen were returning from shooting, near Farnsfield, they saw about a 
a dozen gulls flying towards them, and, as the birds passed over, they fired ; 
one fell with a broken wing. Instead of flying away, its companions began 
to fly in circles over the wounded bird: several shots were then fired, and 
two more birds obtained. On going to the birdstuffer’s to see the birds 
I found them to be the common skua. They were young birds, one male 
and two females, in very fine plumage. It is a very long way inland for 
skuas to be found, the nearest sea being more than fifty miles as the crow 
flies. This is the first instance, as far as I can ascertain, of the common 
skua being killed in Nottinghamshire—J. Whitaker. 
_ Yellow-nosed Albatross in Derbyshire——The following is the passage 
about the albatross to which I referred (S. S. 2563) :— 
“ The Yellow-nosed Albatross a British Bird.—On November [25th], 1836, 
a beautiful specimen of the yellow-nosed albatross (Diomedea chlororhynchus, 
Lath.) was observed sailing above the River Trent at Stockwith, near Gains- 
borough, and was shot nearly opposite the Chesterfield canal basin.”— 
‘Analyst,’ April, 1837 (vol. vi., p. 160). 
The above will be found copied into Wood's ‘ Naturalist’ (vol. ii., p. 104), 
and commented upon at p. 24. For a sight of it in that magazine I am 
indebted to Prof. Newton. Unfortunately my copy of the ‘Analyst’ does 
not go beyond 1836, but I am informed by that gentleman that the notice 
in the main, is correctly copied. Nowa point at once strikes me, which 
I should have seen before if I had been able to refer to the notice when 
I first wrote to you:—Chesterfield is the locality where the second albatross 
was shot, which was received with so much ridicule, and which tummed out 
to be a stuffed one which had been killed years before, and been ejected, as 
