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occurrence in this country of others in small flocks at the following 

 places : — 



May 15. Hampshire. — Itchen Stoke, near Winchester ; one shot out of a 

 flock of twenty by a gamekeeper of Lord Ash burton. 



„ 17. Aberdeenshire. — At Cruden, eight miles S. of Peterhead; one 

 killed by a boy with a stone, out of a large flock. 



„ 18. Yorkshire (Holdernessj. — About thirty seen ; twenty in one flock. 



„ 20. Yorkshire. — On the coast near Easington; about a dozen ; two&hot. 



» ,i Oxfordshire. — On Harcourt Hill, Bensington ; five seen (two shot 

 on 22nd). 



„ „ Hertfordshire. — Near Hoddesdon ; a flock of forty ; two shot. 

 These were very kindly forwarded to me by the owner, Mi - . 

 F. M. Campbell, of Rose Hill, Hoddesdon, and were exhibited 

 on IVJay 25th, at a conversazione of the Linnaean Society at 

 Burlington House, where they excited considerable attention 

 and interest. 



„ 21. Yorkshire. — Kilnsea ; one seen. 



„ 22. Yorkshire. — Same place ; nearly a dozen. 



„ „ Nottinghamshire. — On the Clifton estate; seven seen ; two shot. 



„ 24. Yorkshire. — Between Easington and Patrington ; a flock of 

 thirty. 



„ „ Yorkshire. — Burniston, four miles N. of Scarborough; a flock of 

 forty ; one shot. 



„ „ Norfolk. — Mousehold Heath, near Norwich ; a flock of twenty- 

 five seen. 



„ 25. Yorkshire. — Near Spurn ; a flock of thirty seen. 



We may doubtless expect to hear of many others. Meantime, the 

 observations above noted may be useful in directing attention to what 

 promises to be a repetition of the extraordinary event of 1863. It is, 

 perhaps, too much to expect that people will refrain altogether from 

 shooting at these distinguished Asiatic visitors, but I would strongly urge 

 upon those who may meet with any flocks not to take too great a toll of 

 them, but to give some pairs at least a chance of nesting here during the 

 present breeding-season, as there is every reason to believe they might do 

 if allowed to remain unmolested in suitable localities. At present 1 have 

 only to add that as every fact concerning these birds is of interest, a note 

 of their weight may be worth recording. Of a pair shot in Oxfordshire on 

 May 20th (as above mentioned), the male weighed lOf oz., the female 

 8f oz. — J. E. Habting. 



Pallas's Sand Grouse in Holderness. — During a recent visit to 

 Holderness 1 had many opportunities of observing in some numbers those 

 interesting birds, the Sand Grouse, Syrrhaptes paradoxus, which were seen 

 in various parts of the country on or about May 20th. Three which I saw 

 had been recently shot from a flock containing about forty birds. They 



