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happened to me early in October, when I saw a bird as large as a Snow 

 Bunting running over the mown masses of floating weeds collected near 

 the mouth of our main outfall-sluice. In colour it resembled the female 

 Lapp Bunting, and may have belonged to that species ; in flight it showed 

 a dull white patch on the upper part of the wing near the bend. Its note, 

 which had a sharp metallic ring, was quite new to me. I saw a Wheatear 

 here on November 7th. No Snow Buntings up to this date (Nov. 10th). 

 Altogether this has been a very remarkable season, quite a host of rare 

 immigrants having turned up on the east coast. — John Cordeaux (Great 

 Cotes, Ulceby). 



Lesser Black-backed Gull on the Yorkshire Coast.— Mr. Carter's 

 graphically written and interesting paper on " Egging on the Coast of 

 Yorkshire," in the last number, has recalled very vividly to my mind the 

 grand Yorkshire cliffs along which I enjoyed many delightful rambles in 

 the summer of 1875, 1876, and 1877. I have little doubt that the hawk's 

 eggs referred to by Mr. Carter (p. 447) were the eggs of the identical Pere- 

 grine mentioned by me in ' The Zoologist' for 1876 (p. 5040), as follows : — 

 " Speaking to me on the subject of the young Peregrines .... Mr. Brown 

 told me he had four Peregrine's eggs brought him in the spring of 1875, 

 taken on the Filey cliffs." If the Lesser Black-backed Gull can be satis- 

 factorily identified as having bred on the Yorkshire cliffs, it will be a matter 

 of great interest to many naturalists. I never saw the bird in the breeding 

 season either at Filey or along the Bempton and Speeton cliffs; certainly 

 eggs said to be those of this gull have been offered me on the Yorkshire 

 coast, but I have always been very doubtful about them, especially as the 

 would-be vendor (not a " dimmer "j professed to be able easily to distinguish 

 the eggs from those of the Herring Gull, which I do not believe any one 

 can do. Mr. W. E. Clarke, in his valuable ' Handbook of the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of Yorkshire,' does not mention this bird as breeding in Yorkshire, 

 neither does Mr. Hevvitson, nor the Editor of the new edition of " Yarrell." 

 I hope Mr. Carter will make another expedition to the Yorkshire cliffs 

 next summer, and give the readers of 'The Zoologist' the result of fresh 

 enquiries on this point. — Julian G. Tuck (St. Mary's Clergy House, 

 Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent). 



A Supplemental List of the Birds of Breconshire.— In 1882 I 

 republished a " List of the Birds of Breconshire," which had appeared from 

 time to time in the pages of ' The Zoologist.' Since then, through the 

 courtesy of one or two ornithologists in this county, I have been enabled 

 to add the following birds to my hst, which, though making it far from 

 complete, at least swells it to a very respectable total. 



Black Redstart, Ruticilla tithys. — One seen some years since, resting 

 for a short time on the leads on the roof of Llanthomas, near Hay, in this 



