62 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Ardetta minuta (Linn.) — Scarborough, February 25tb, 1879. 

 ' Handbook of Yorkshire Vertebrata,' p. 50. 



Phalaropm hyperhorcus (Linn.) — One in breeding-dress, 

 Kamsdale Pond, Notts, July 6th, 1843. ' Birds of Nottingham- 

 shire,' p. 46. 



Anser cincreus, Meyer. — One shot out of a flock of a score at 

 Walling Wells by Sir J. White, June 29th, 1880. 



Clangida alheola (Linn.)— Bessingly Beck, near Bridlington, 

 Yorkshire, winter of 1864-5. See ' Zoologist,' 1865, p. 9659. 

 ' Handbook of British Birds,' p. 161 ; ' Birds of the Humber 

 District,' p. 177 ; and ' Handbook of Yorkshire Vertebrata,' 



p. 57. 



Cosmonetta histrionica (Linn.) — Male, Filey, Yorks., autumn 

 of 1862. Mr. Roberts, of Scarborough, saw some men throwing 

 this bird into the sea for a dog to retrieve. They had found 

 it dead on the shore. 'Handbook of Yorkshire Vertebrata,' 

 p. 58. 



Somateria mollissima (Linn.) — Shot near Nottingham, Nov. 

 16th, 1882 ; the only example procured in the county. Zool. 

 1883, p. 129. 



Mergus merganser, Linn. — An adult male. Park Hall, Notts, 

 1876. ' Birds of Nottinghamshire,' p. 64. 



M. alhellus, Linn. — An adult male, Thornton Reservoir, 

 Leicester, 1877. 



Xema Sabinii (Leach). — Bridlington, Yorkshire, Oct. 14th, 

 1875. ' Handbook of Yorkshire Vertebrata,' p. 81. 



Pagophila eburnea (Phipps). — Shot off the North Pier, Aber- 

 deen, Nov. 17th, 1874. 



Stercorarius crepidatus (Banks). — Mansfield, 1880. 



Puffinus griseiis (Gmel.) — Flamborough, Oct. 1881. 



Amongst the hybrids in this collection I particularly noticed 

 one between Goldfinch and Linnet, and another between Linnet 

 and Greenfinch, obtained in Cambridgeshire (Zool. 1883, p. 302). 



