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Pallas's Sand Grouse in Wexford. — On June 14th Mr. James Bent, 

 Rosslare, Co. Wexford, sent me the skin of a bird of this species, which he 

 shot there early in June. It had been badly skinned by a boy, and spoiled 

 as a specimen, but is perfectly recognizable. This is the only specimen 

 that has come under my observation in the South, though I have heard of 

 captures of Sand Grouse in several other parts of Ireland, of which I hope 

 particulars will be given. — E. J. Ussher (Cappagh, Co. Waterford). 



Pallas's Sand Grouse in Spain.— I received a letter a few days ago 

 (July 23rd) from my friend Don Jose Arevalo y Baca, Director of the 

 Natural History Museum of the University of Valencia, informing me 

 that a male of Pallas's Sand Grouse was killed from a flock of five or six 

 on June 9th, on the sandy shore that extends between the two canals 

 known as Perello and Perellonet connecting the Lake Albufera with the 

 sea, some teu miles to the S.E. of the above-named city. Senor Arevalo 

 writes of the Syrrhaptes as hitherto unknown in Spain. — Lilfohd. 



The European Lapwing in the Island of Barbados. — Dr. Charles 

 Manning, of this island, has in his possession a live Lapwiug, Vanellus 

 cristatus, which was shot at and injured in one wing on the 24th December, 

 1886, in the island of Barbados. This bird has now been eighteen months 

 in confinement, and when I saw it, a few days ago, appeared to be quite 

 healthy ; it is fed on earthworms. I am not aware of any authenticated 

 record of the prior appearance of this species in the West Indian islands, 

 nor, for the matter of that, on the American continent, unless we include 

 Greenland, from whence it has been recorded. That it should have survived 

 the great ocean passage of over four thousand miles is a remarkable fact. — 

 H. W. Feilden (Barbados, June 25, 1888). 



Golden Plover carrying its Young. — When walking with a friend 

 across an upland moor in Peebleshire, on June 23rd, we flushed a pair of 

 Golden Plover, which flew about and screamed in such a manner as led us 

 to suspect that their young must be concealed in our immediate vicinity. 

 On proceeding to search about the place one of the old birds, the female, 

 flew towards us, and, settling in the heather about twenty yards from where 

 we were standing, rose again almost immediately with a young one between 

 its legs, which it carried flying close to the ground for a hundred yards or 

 so, when it again pitched, ran a short distance, and taking wing finally 

 settled on a neighbouring hillock, where it commenced its cry of alarm as 

 before. We proceeded to the place where we saw it alight, but owing to the 

 closeness of the heather failed to find the young one, nor did the old one 

 attempt to repeat its former performance. Although numerous instances 

 are recorded in which the Woodcock has been seen to carry its young 

 out of danger, I think the Golden Plover rarely acts in such a manner, 

 and if I am right in my conjecture, the above may have sufficient interest 



