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on-Tyiie, and about 100 feet above sea-level. From the river Tyiie tbe 

 hills rise on both sides to an additional height of about 300 feet. A little 

 further to the south greater altitudes are reached, some parts of Healey 

 township being about 600 feet, and Minster Acres about 1000 feet above 

 the sea. The country is well wooded, there being some woods of 500 acres, 

 and more in extent. It is also well watered ; several burns run into the 

 Tyne near Riding Mill, which pass through deep and in some places rocky 

 gills. Towards Blanchland and Stanhope the country consists of moorland. 

 The prevailing geological formation is the millstone grit. The " woodlands" 

 mentioned is a large estate near Lanchester, and in the county of Durham, 

 formerly, and, possibly still, a very rich neighbourhood in uncommon birds. 

 Stanhope is also in the county of Durham. The following misprints in my 

 former notes may be corrected: — Page 96, line )iS, for " Stockfield " read 

 " Stocksfield," as elsewhere; p. iJ9, line 10, "have perceptibly decreased" 

 read " have ?io^," &c. ; same page, line 16, for "Sealey" read "Healey"; 

 p. 101, line 9, for " Sealey" read " Slaley."— Henky H. Slater. 



[These misprints show how very desirable it is that correspondents 

 should write proper names clearly and di^^tinctly. Names which may be 

 found on any good map may be generally deciphered, but names of 

 unimportant localities, or of woods, shaws, gills, and so forth cannot always 

 be guessed rightly by the best of printers. — Ed.] 



Spotted Redshank and Long-tailed Duck in the Moy Estuary.— On 

 the 14th June last, when going to Bartragh in my punt, I heard the call 

 of a Spotted Redshank, and shortly after saw it on the Scurmore shore, 

 along with some Greenshanks ; a boat passing it at the time scared it off 

 the shore, and although I took a long shot as it flew past, it escaped 

 uninjured. When down the Moyne channel in my punt, on the 31st 

 December, I observed a fine male Long-tailed Duck, in company with some 

 Mergansers, whose wildness prevented my taking a shot at it. On the 9th 

 January, on the river near Belleck, also associating with Mergansers, I saw 

 a male Long-tailed Duck, probably the same bird seen near Moyne in 

 December. — Robert Warren (Moyview, Balliua, Co. Mayo). 



Velvet Scoter near Manchester. — Dr. Kershaw, of Middleton, near 

 Manchester, wrote to me on November 22nd, " I had a little excitement 

 here yesterday : I had for the past three or four days noticed four black- 

 looking birds swimming on Rhodes Reservoir, so yesterday I thought 

 I would go down with the big gun and see if I could get a shot. On my 

 arrival I found they had all disappeared save one. At first sight it looked 

 like a Cormorant, but as there was a perfect gale blowing at the time, and 

 the bird kept bobbing up and down, it was difficult to say what it was. 

 However, I killed it, and, behold ! it proved to be a Velvet Scoter, and 

 a very good one, too." — T. H. Nelson (Redcar). 



