Tne ZooLocist—SEPTEMBER, 1876. 5083 
doves (brought up by hand in the spring of 1875) in my aviary. This spring 
the female died, and I substituted a female: Barbary dove as a companion. 
The result has been first a pair and then a single bird, and the old birds 
are sitting again. ‘he turtle doves which I have kept always showed a 
strong migratory tendency in the autumn, being very restless and beating 
against the wires. The Barbary dove not so, neither does it migrate, 
I believe, in its own land. What will be the feeling of the half-bred birds ? 
In plumage they take most after the male, but are not so handsome as 
either parent.—John IV. G. Spicer; Spye Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 
August 18, 1876. 
Redshank at Northrepps.— On the 19th of August a young redshank was 
shot at a small road-side pond in Northrepps. It is the first that has ever 
occurred in the parish, and I certainly think it is remarkable, as we have 
neither marsh nor stream. Not many have come to our line of coast yet, 
but in August, 1872, I found them so plentiful at Burnham Overy, a few 
miles further west than Blakenny, that on the 29th I got fifteen in a few 
hours. It is likely that these had bred there, as they were not nearly so shy 
as the flocks which, a few weeks later, arrive at Blakenny (vide ‘ Birds of 
Norfolk,’ ii., p. 214). They presented every variety of plumage, but strange 
to say, the majority were old birds in change or in winter plumage, one 
only retaining a part of its summer plumage. All, old and young, had the 
same yellow legs (¢f., ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ l. c.).—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Green Sandpiper at Northrepps.—On the 13th of August I flushed a 
green sandpiper in our paddock. It uttered no cry on rising (vide Zool. 
8. S. 3318). There is no doubt that August is the month in which this 
species of knot occurs, though Mr. Stevenson plainly shows that there is no 
month in which ‘one or more examples are not occasionally met with” 
(‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ 1i., p. 228).—Jd. 
Woodcock Migrating in July.—About the end of July a woodeock was 
found on the shore at Beeston, in Norfolk, having been apparently washed 
up by the waves: it was half-eaten when found. I did not see it until some 
time afterwards, so cannot say how long it had been dead, but think it would 
have been all eaten if it had been in the water long. ‘The inference is that 
it was attempting to migrate in the summer time, at a date when no 
migration is known to take place of this or any other British bird.—Zd. 
Knot and Green Sandpiper at Aldeburgh. A knot in full breeding 
plumage was shot at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on the Ist and a green sandpiper 
on the 10th of August, 1876.—I’. Kerry; Harwich Bank, Harwich. 
Early Occurrence of the Gray Phalarope in Devon.—On Saturday, the 
5th of the present month, a gray phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) was brought 
to Mr. Luckraft, birdstuffer, which had been captured by a boy in Stone- 
house Creek, close by the Naval and Military Hospitals. The lad was 
fishing for small crabs from some balks of timber, with a line to which 
