OCCASIONAL NOTES. 103 
THE Waitk-BEAKED DortpHin.—Allow me to correct an error into 
which Mr. J. M. Campbell has been led with regard to the destination of 
the skull of Mr. Brightwell’s White-beaked Dolphin; it is not in the 
British Museum, as stated in the Museum ‘ Catalogue of Seals and Whales,’ 
and elsewhere, but in the Museum of this city; the origin of the error I 
have explained at p. 422 of ‘The Zoologist’ for 1879. The Yarmouth 
specimen was landed on the 25th August, 1878, not 1876, as stated in 
‘The Zoologist’ for 1881, p. 42. The skull of the latter is also in the 
Norwich Museum.—T. Souruwett (Norwich). 
Breevine oF THE SNow Buntina.—I fear that Mr. Charles Whymper’s 
beautiful drawing of the Snow Bunting’s nest which embellishes the 
January number of ‘The Zoologist’ may convey to those who have never 
had the pleasure of finding or seeing one in situ an erroneous impression ; 
and as I find that in my history of this bird, to which Mr. Cordeaux has 
referred in such kind terms, I have omitted to state, so prominently as I 
ought to have done, one remarkable and (so far as I am aware) invariable 
characteristic of its mode of nidification, I should like to say a few words 
on the subject here. The Snow Bunting is a bird in which J have taken 
very great interest ever since the time when I first made its acquaintance, 
and my opportunities of enjoying its society, especially in its breeding- 
haunts, have been numerous. I must have found for myself considerably 
more than a dozen of its nests, in every case by watching the movements 
of the hen-bird, aud I must have seen in situ at least as many others, all 
found, if I remember right, in the same way. Not one of them was 
exposed to the sky, as is represented in the plate, and, from what I have 
heard or read of others, I think I am justified in declaring that the Snow 
Bunting does not build its nest in such a position, but always under cover. 
I may add that only in one instance do I remember having been able even 
to see the nest without removing the stems which protected it, and more 
than once, after I have found where it was placed, it has been quite 
inaccessible—owing to the long and tortuous hole, the size of the stones, 
and the absence of any engineering tools. In one single case only did 
accident assist me in discovering the nest, and even then so abundant were 
the chinks, in one of which I knew it was, that we had to wait till the hen- 
bird showed us which of them led to it. In all other cases the discovery 
was the result of patient and often long watching, but watching that was 
never wearisome to me; and [I can only attribute the ill-success that has 
attended many attempts on the part of some no mean bird-nesters to bad 
weather or want of time. I must take this opportunity of demurring to the 
statement made by your correspondent, Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond 
(supra pp. 65, 66), as to his having seen a pair of Snow Buntings, in June, 
