108 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Wren’s Nesr in January.—On January 13th a farm-labourer took, 
at the village of Broughton, about a mile from this place, a Wren’s nest 
with seven eggs in it, all quite fresh. Has such a find ever been made in 
January before? I do not recollect either to have heard or read of such a 
thing, and the fact seems to me worthy a line in your periodical. The 
weather for some time previous to the present severity was unusually mild. 
—Jounx H. Wittmore (Queenwood College, near Stockbridge, Hants.) 
Ivory Gutt 1n Yorx«sHire.—I have pleasure in recording the captnre 
of the Ivory Gull by a York gentleman at Filey, in September last. I 
examined the bird myself at one of our York birdstuffers (who had it 
to case), and found it to be a male bird in perfect mature plumage, i. e., 
entirely white. A young one was also captured the same month at Filey, 
and is in the beautiful mottled plumage of immature birds. These two 
birds are, so far as I can ascertain, the third and fourth respectively ever 
shot in our county. One of the previous ones is recorded by Yarrell 
as having been obtained in the neighbourhood of Scarborough, and the other 
one is mentioned by Mr. J. Cordeaux, in his ‘ Birds of the Humber 
District,’ p. 208, as shot on the east coast of Yorkshire. I have also 
to record the capture of a male Smew and a male Goosander, both in 
splendid winter plumage, in the neighbourhood of Pickering. The gizzard 
of the Smew contained a fish like a small dace, and when I examined it 
was entire, except the head, which was probably digested. —J. Backuouss, 
jun. (West Bank, York). 
Wurre’s Turush in Devonsuire.—A good specimen of this Eastern 
Asiatic Thrush was killed by Mr. E. Studdy in Dene Wood, near 
Ashburton, Devon, during the severe cold weather in January last. It was 
in company with three or four birds of apparently the same species, and 
when flushed was mistaken for a woodcock from its heavy flight. The 
species was first observed in England in 1828, as recorded by Yarrell, and 
the example now under notice appears to be the ninth that has been 
obtained in England since that date. The species is best known from Japan 
aud China, and was described by Pallas under the name of Turdus varius. 
The specimen last killed was exhibited by me at a meeting of the Zoological 
Society on the 15th inst., and the species was fully recognised.—E. W. H. 
Hotpsworrx (84, Clifton Hill, St. John’s Wood.) 
(This makes the sixteenth instance in which Turdus varius has been 
reported to have been met with in the British Islands. A dozen instances 
are recorded in the ‘ Handbook of British Birds,’ published in 1872, since 
which date four others, including that above noticed, have been recorded, 
See ‘ Zoologist,' 1874, p. 3880; 1879, p. 133; and 1880, p. 68.—Eb.] 
Errara.—P. 54, for “ Royal Philosophical Society,” read ‘‘ Royal Physical 
Society of Edinburgh.” P. 66, for “ Felbrigge,” read * Selbrigge.” 
