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fox-terrier on the scene that caused the bird to take refuge in the tree 
overhead. We were standing within forty yards, and it allowed the dog to 
approach within a yard of it before taking wing.—Coxiris WinLMorr 
(Eddington Cottage, Eddington, Kent). 
[If our correspondent will refer to the Editor’s ‘ Handbook of British 
Birds’ (pp. 118, 119) he will find reference to many more recent occurrences 
of this bird than those mentioned in the old records quoted by him, which 
we have consequently struck out. One observed in Somersetshire in August, 
1873, is noticed in ‘The Zoologist’ for that year (p. 3689).-——Ep.] 
Note on the Red-throated Diver. — A bird of this species, which was 
hanging in Leadenhall Market on November 5th, and apparently had been 
killed but a few days previously, was in full adult breeding plumage, with 
the exception of a slight sprinkling of small white feathers on the chin and 
cheeks ; but it had lost all the quill-feathers from both wings, and, I pre- 
sume, had moulted them. As the above date seems to me to be a late one 
for the assumption of the winter dress to be just commencing, I think the 
above may be worth recording; but I would take the opportunity of 
referring to some interesting remarks on this subject by Mr. H. Blake-Knox 
in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1870, p. 2183, and also to those in Audubon’s 
‘Ornithological Biography,’ vol. ili., p. 21. — J. H. Gurney (Northrepps, 
Norwich). 
Unrecorded Occurrence of the Whiskered and Roseate Terns. — At 
the sale of the late Mr. Rising’s collection of birds, which took place at 
Horsey, near Great Yarmouth, on September 17th last, most of which were 
of local interest, there were two birds from other counties which I think 
should be placed on record, as I am not aware that either of the species are 
known to have occurred in the counties named. JI am indebted for the 
localities and dates to the kindness of Mr. George Frederick, into whose 
collection both birds came in the first instance, and passed direct from him 
to the late Mr. Rising. The Whiskered Tern, Hydrochelidon hybrida, was 
shot on the River Swale, at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, by one of the Duke 
of Leeds’ gamekeepers in 1842. At the recent sale by auction this bird 
passed into the possession of Mr. W. H. Jeary, of Burlingham Hall, Norfolk. 
The Roseate Tern, Sterna dougalli, was shot on the Sussex coast, near 
Eastbourne, about the year 1848. It was purchased at the auction by Mr. 
Ashmead, the taxidermist, of Bishopsgate Street, London. — Tuomas 
SovrHwe i (Norwich). 
Grey Phalarope at Mansfield. — One of these birds was shot on the 
Reservoir at Mansfield on October 17th by Mr. Tomasson, who kindly 
offered it to me. It is in full winter plumage, and (as usual) was very tame. 
This species has occurred once before on the same picce of water, and a few 
times in other parts of this county.—J. WarrakeEr, 
