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these litters had some light tortoiseshell-coloured kittens among them, of 
which a moiety appeared to have their hearing imperfect."—‘ Nature.’ 
(I have so frequently heard it asserted that white cats with blue eyes 
were deaf, that I have taken it for granted that this was the case. I have 
known a single instance of a cat insensible to sound, but it had one blue and 
one red eye, the latter as in an albino.—_ Edward Newman.] 
Rare Birds and Otter near York.—A tufted duck was shot near Malton 
on the 24th of February; a young female smew at Poppleton, near York, 
on the 28th; a female scaup and a merlin near Malton on the 29th; a great 
northern diver at Norton Coney on the 8th of March; a tufted duck near 
Malton on the 14th; a pintail duck at Pocklington on the 14th. An otter 
was killed near York some time in December last; and in November a 
roughlegged buzzard and a little stint were shot near here. Except the 
otter and roughlegsed buzzard, these are all in the possession of Mr. Ripley, 
naturalist, York—J. E. Gripper ; March 17, 1876. 
Rare Birds near Malton.—A scaup duck was shot at Ganton, East 
Riding, on the 18th of February ; a green woodpecker at Gilling on the 26th, 
and one seen in Castle Howard Park on the 8th March. A tufted duck 
was shot on Gilling Castle Lake on the 8th of March; three others were 
seen at the same time. A pintail duck was shot at Stowood on the 14th 
of March.— George Edson; Malton, Yorkshire. 
Ornithological Notes from Dublin.—April in Dublin has been an extra- 
ordinarily severe month; notwithstanding this, however, several of the 
summer migrants have already put.in an appearance. Wheatears were seen 
in the outskirts of Dublin on the 27th of March. The chiffchaff was heard 
on the 1st of April; the willow wren was seen shortly after; and swallows 
were seen at Leixlip and Bray, &c., on the 11th. A corn crake was observed 
near Dublin about a fortnight ago; and one of our leading naturalists has 
been pursuing that rare bird, a black redstart, for several days. The snow 
buntings, which were very numerous this year, have long since departed.— 
Charles W. Henson; Dublin, April 14, 1876. 
Greenland Falcon in North Wales.x—On the 20th of March last I had 
the satisfaction of examining, in the flesh, a splendid specimen of the adult 
male Greenland falcon, at Henry Shaw’s shop in Shrewsbury. The bird 
was the property of Mr. John F. Jesse, of Caefron, Ruthin, North Wales, 
and had been given to him by Mr. John Roberts, of Rhiwlas, who picked it 
up a few days before, quite dead, on the Llanbedr Mountain. The plumage 
was magnificent, scarcely a feather being out of place, and although the crop 
and stomach were empty the bird was heavy and in good condition. Its 
death appeared to have been caused by coming violently in contact with a 
telegraph-wire or some other obstacle, as the skin was cut in two places on 
