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unable to fly. Although a vast number of eggs are taken every year the 
number of neither species (the Common and Lesser) seem to be at all 
diminished. I shot an immature Turnstone close to the Low Lighthouse, 
Walking along the river-wall between Aldeburgh and Iken on August 20th, 
I met with a single Black Tern hawking for insects over the ditches. 
This Tern is by no means common on the Suffolk coast. A day or two 
afterwards I killed an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull in the most perfect 
summer plumage.—Junian Tuck (Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent). 
Guossy Isis in Norrorx.—Mr. George Cresswell informs me that a 
male bird of this species, now in his possession, was killed on the Wolferton 
Marshes, near Lynn, on September 16th. Others were seen at the same 
time, and he believes a second one killed, but he has not at present been 
able to ascertain what has become of it. Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear, in 
their ‘ Catalogue of Norfolk and Suffolk Birds,’ speak of one of these birds 
as having been killed near Lynn in the winter of 1818. This bird is referred 
to in the “Calendar” kept by the Rev. W. Whitear, extracts from which 
have been recently published by the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society (‘Transactions,’ vol. iii. pp. 231—262).- He says under date 
February 9th, 1820 :—“ I also saw at the same time [at Hunt's] a specimen 
of the Glossy Ibis, which I was told was shot in the winter of 1818, on the 
marshes on the western coast of Norfolk, near Lynn.” But an earlier 
reference to a Glossy Ibis occurs under date of October 19th, 1819, as 
follows:—“ He [Hunt] also says that an Ibis was killed this year in 
Norfolk.” At first sight it appears as though two distinct birds were 
recorded, but [ think there can be no doubt that the latter entry is an 
amplification and correction of the earlier one, and that both refer to the 
same bird.—THomas SouTHwE.t (Norwich). 
[We have heard of two others obtained this autumn, one in Lincoln- 
shire, the other in Hampshire, but no particulars of their capture are 
yet to hand.—Ep.] 
Burron’s Sxua 1n DumrriessHtre.—A fine adult male of this species 
was shot in Torthorwald parish, at a place some six or seven miles from 
the shore, on the 12th June last. I had an opportunity of seeing the bird 
shortly afterwards, while it was in Mr. Hastings’ possession for preservation. 
Its plumage was perfect, and the throat, neck, and under parts were 
suffused with crocus-yellow. A friend residing at Tuxford, in Notting- 
hamshire, writes to me that a Buffon’s Skua was captured at Westwood, 
near that place, on June 8th, and kept alive for about three weeks. It 
became very tame, and having one wing cut was allowed to walk about. 
It disappeared one morning, and its owner, Mr. John M. Dufty, inserted a 
paragraph in a local newspaper, containing a description of the bird, and a 
request for its return if it could be caught alive. Strange to say, it was 
