1132 The Zoologist — March, 1868. 



former instances hare come under ray notice ; one in which the plumage was some- 

 what similar to that described above, and in the other instance it was piebald ; the 

 occurrence of these I recorded in the 'Naturalist' for 1864-5, vol. i. p. 146.— T. E. 

 Gunn ; Januarys, 1868. 



Bohemian IVaxwing in Yorkshire.— 'Mr. Charleswortb tells me that great numbers 

 of this rare straggler were observed frequenting the neighbourhood of Richmond, 

 Yorkshire, in the winter of 1866-67. A gamekeeper shot some, and two were pre- 

 served and are now in the possession of Mr. Charlesworth : this gentleman also states 

 that the common crossbill is a regular winter visitor to some woods about twelve miles 

 from Richmond. — A. Clark- Kennedy ; Eton, Bucks. 



Bohemian Waxwing aC Newmarket.— A very tine specimen of the Bohemian wax- 

 wing (a female) was brought for me to stuff this morning. It was shot by Mr. Wright, 

 farmer, at Newmarket. When shot it was feeding on a fir tree.— William Howlelt ; 

 Newmarket, January 1, 1868. — From the ' Field.' 



While Lark near Eastbourne.— December 14, 1807. I have th'S day seen a 

 female sky lark, pure white, without a blemish; eyes hazel; feet flesh-colour. It was 

 shut by Mr. Oshuurne, fanner, Eastbourne. — John Dullon ; Eastbourne. 



Wood Lurk — 1 saw one passing over on the 8th and two ou the 14th of January ; 

 one of the laiter, which 1 moie particularly noticed, seemed to be very dark- 

 coloured. — Clifton; Eton College, January, 1868. 



Blackheaded Bunting in Dry Woods. — On the 28lh of December I was much 

 surprised to see a male blackheaded bunting in a dry coppice, the last place in which 

 I should have expected to see one. The nearest water to the wood is the Medway. — 

 Id. 



Snow Bunting at Hastings. — As I have not yet seen a note on the occurrence of 

 this bird near Hastings in the ' Zoologist,' I may as well give the following short 

 extract from a letter, dated the I Ith of December, 1*67, from my friend Mr. R. B. 

 Sharpe, of the Zoological Society. He says, "At Hastings, last Saturday, I got a 

 snow bunting, just shot, which I bought, making the second one I have got which is 

 British-killed.'' Mr. Sharpe observes, in a late number of 'Laud and Water,' that 

 this bird was a male, and that it was killed on the 7ih of December; and he further 

 states that he had received, on the 19ih of December, another beautiful specimen, 

 which had been shot at Rye by his friend Mr. James Norden. The flock which 

 frequented the neighbourhood was very wild, and consisted of about twenty indi- 

 viduals. — A. Clark- Kennedy ; December 31, 1867. 



Erratum.— Under the heading "Large Fike in Buckinghamshire" (S. S. 1061), 

 for " triminel " read " trimmer."— Id. 



Nesting of the Yetlowhammer. — In the ' Zoologist' for October Mr. Clogg mentions 

 the fact of having found the nest of the yellowhannuer (Emberiza cilrinella) as late as 

 the 26ih of August. In 1864 I found one iu a wheat-field, when we were harvesting 

 in September; it contained live eggs, hard-set. In 1856 I found another on the 

 Whitby Moors, in a he.lge, the houndaiy of a wheat-field, on the 6th of October; it 

 contaiued two yoang ones: a notice of this fact found its way into a Malton paper. 

 In 1865 some mowers showed me one they had found among some laid wheat; 

 it contained four eggs, hard-set. I believe the yellowhammer rears two or more broods 

 a year. They are amongst the earliest builders, taking rank next to the hedgesparrow, 

 blackbird and thiush ; and long after all other birds have done breeding, their nests are 



