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in their colour and markings, the ground colour of a dull greenish brown, 
with round-edged marks of dark brown. Amongst the eggs of Puffinus 
tristis, all of snowy whiteness, was one specimen three inches two lines in 
length, with a breadth of two inches one line. Out of a uumber of burrows 
examined, in one only was an old bird at home; in this burrow lay a dead 
young one. Was this visit caused by affection, or by a want to rid itself of 
the oily food collected for the young bird? This was at Cape Young, near 
Aharekauri, Chatham Isles.—T. H. Porrs (Ohinitaki, New Zealand). 
Iceland Gull at Scilly—The Iceland Gull has occurred at Scilly; 
but I do not think it can be considered a rare species in this district. 
Mr. Vingoe, jun., tells me that quite recently he saw a flock of more than 
fifty on the rocks in Lamorna Cove, about three miles from Penzance. He 
also showed me a specimen of the Greater Black-backed Gull, killed on 
March 11th, with a stretch of wing five feet nine inches. — THOMAS 
Cornisu (Penzance). 
Hybrid between a Stock Dove and Tame Pigeon.— During the 
last summer I was told by one of the labourers on the Haywood Oaks 
Farm (Col. Seely’s), near here, that a Stock Dove with white wings had 
been seen there. I may mention that round the house are about forty 
large and very old oak trees, all of them more or less hollow, and they are 
frequented by a good many Stock Doves. The bird was seen, off and on, 
all the summer, and when shooting there with Col. Seely I asked him if 
his keeper might kill it for me; this, after a deal of trouble, he did. 
When he brought the bird I said that it must be one of the tame ones,— 
there are a good many on the Farm,—but he said he was sure it was not. 
He said that the bird was so wild he had no end of trouble to get it, and 
at last shot it at quite fifty yards. This was fully borne out by the clean 
way it was killed. On enquiry I found out that it had been noticed as 
soon as it left the nest, and was always in the oak trees, and went in and 
out of the holes in them, and was seen feeding in the fields far away from 
the Farm with the Stock Doves, and never on the buildings or with the 
tame birds, and that it was if anything wilder than the Stock Doves. I at 
once decided that it must be a hybrid, and as this is the only case I have 
ever heard of, I think it will interest the readers of ‘The Zoologist.’ The 
description of the bird is as follows:—First six or seven flight-feathers 
white, others slate-grey ; wing-coverts slate-colour, with a few dark marks ; 
back white; tail and rump slate-colour, just like Stock Dove; head slate, 
with white patch; the neck has the lustrous colour as in Stock Dove; 
breast grey; legs red.—J. Wurraxer (Rainworth Lodge, Notts). 
Abundance of Greenfinches last Winter.—During the past winter 
Greenfinches were unusually plentiful about Norwich and also about 
Brighton. I have been told that a Norwich birdcatcher netted upwards 
