OCCASIONAL NOTES. 423 
Norrs From THE FArneE IsLtanps.—In one of my Migration Schedules 
received from the Inner Farne Lighthouse (September 3rd), that excellent 
observer, Mr. Thomas H. Cutting, communicates, amongst many others, 
the following interesting notes :—A white Petrel was seen by several of the 
fishermen swimming near the island in the early part of March. The 
King Eider was seen again in the latter part of April, and was about the 
islands for two months ; it was seen by Mr. Cutting on June 19th. A pure 
white Guillemot was seen several times in the months of June and July. 
Several pairs of Roseate Terns have bred on the islands this year. The 
Sandwich Tern first arrived on May 6th, the Arctic Terns on the 9th; they 
left again, almost to a bird, on August 21st. Several of the latter were seen 
again fishing near the island on the 26th—Joun CorprEaux (Great Cotes, 
Ulceby). 
ON THE ACCLIMATISATION OF THE KuRoPEAN QuaiL in NortH 
America.—I lately saw a paragraph in an American newspaper to the 
effect that Quails imported from Messina had been successfully acclimatised 
in the state of Maine, but retained their migratory habits, going south in 
the autumn and returning to Maine in the spring. Can any correspondent 
of ‘The Zoologist’ supply additional information on this subject? I know 
no other instance of the artificial acclimatisation of a migratory species.— 
J. H. Gurney (Northrepps Hall, Norwich). 
Snow Bunting NEsvING IN SHETLAND.—A Snow Bunting’s nest with 
three eggs was found by a boy, on the 10th August last, in the island of 
Yell. The nest was built at the side of a corn-field in a tuft of docks and 
rank long grass; it is composed of coarse grass, lined with hair. The 
mother allowed herself to be taken rather than quit her charge, but the boy 
who took the nest was humane enough to give the poor bird her liberty. 
The eggs are in my collection, and any readers of ‘ The Zoologist’ interested 
in Ornithology who may chance to visit Lerwick can see and examine the 
specimens.—J. T. Garriock (Prospect House, Lerwick). 
Foop or 1HE Rine Dove.—In addition to the varieties of food of the 
Ring Dove given by Mr. F. Norgate, in his ‘‘ Notes on the Food of Birds” 
(p. 824), may be added-the flowers of the charlock (Sinapis arvensis), unripe 
seeds. of the cow-parsnep (Heraclewm sphondylium), fruit of the wild rose 
and sweet-briar, turnip-seed picked from the freshly-sown drills, and goose- 
berries of all kinds, though the yellows are the favourites—RoBErt WARREN 
(Moyview, Ballina). 
GarGaNney AND Sporrep RepsHank 1n CornwaLu.—There was shot on 
8th inst., west of Penzance, a Garganey Duck, in the first year’s plumage ; 
and in the course of the week I procured from a game-dealer here a Dusky 
Redshank. Mr. W. H. Vingoe, of this place, saw both of these birds, and 
confirmed my identification of them.—T. CornisH (Penzance). 
