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I believe has not yet been recorded. Besides having another exactly like 
it, I have a third in my collection, a perfect albino.—Jonn MarsHaLu 
(Belmont, Taunton). 
[Another instance of a pure white Wood Pigeon is reported in ‘ The 
Field’ of 1st August last.—Ep,] 
Ring Ouzel feeding on Cherries.—It may interest some of your 
readers to hear of the capture of a Ring Ouzel alive in a cultivated part of 
Lincolnshire, nineteen miles south of Lincoln. It was taken by one of our 
gardeners in a cherry-net, feeding, I suppose, on the cherries. It is, 
I believe, a female of this year; but being put into my aviary with Black- 
birds, &c., it died, and was thrown away unfortunately, as I intended to 
have preserved its skin, and to have examined it. Is not this bird of rare 
occurrence in this county ?—T. G. Rerve (Leadenham House, Grantham). 
[ Mr. Cordeaux, in his ‘ Birds of the Humber District,’ tells us that the 
Ring Ouzel is occasionally met with in Lincolnshire during the spring and 
autumn, and that during the latter season he has observed it in company 
with Fieldfares. It evidently does not breed in his county, or he would 
have remarked it; and its appearance in gardens and cultivated grounds is, 
we should imagine, unusual. We have seldom observed it except in the 
wildest parts of the country, generally on hilly ground amongst heath and 
juniper, and far removed from all human habitations.—Ep.] 
Variety of the Brambling.— Three black-chinned Bramblings were 
killed at Yarmouth last autumn. I never saw but one example of this 
variety obtained in Norfolk before, and this was picked out from among 
some poisoned birds at Florden, before that method of destruction was 
made illegal. The black patch on the chin measured about one-fourth of 
an inch, but in one of my Yarmouth examples it is over half an inch. In 
Herr Giitke’s collection is a very fine specimen, obtained in the little island 
of Heligoland, in which the black measures half an inch. This variation 
in the colour of the chin, I believe, has never been noticed in the hen 
bird. It is well represented in a figure of this species given in Rowley’s 
‘ Ornithological Miscellany’ (vol. i. p. 90).—J. H. Gurney, jun. (Northrepps, 
Norwich). 
Breeding of the Lesser Black-backed Gull on the Yorkshire Coast. 
—Referring to the correspondence which has already appeared on this 
subject, I wrote last June to one of the ‘climmers” on the Yorkshire 
coast, asking him to send me “a clutch” of Kittiwake’s eggs, and with 
them he sent two eggs of the Lesser Black-backed Gull, which he thought 
I should like as they are so seldom to be found. He assures me they are 
genuine, and that he distinctly saw the old bird sitting on them before he 
took them. The nest was on the cliffs between Filey and Scarborough, 
where the eggs were also taken which I recorded in ‘The Zoologist’ for 
