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will probably extend our materials liberally. As regards our 

 views already published, we erred in one particular, viz., in 

 stating that the Sanderling, Calidris arenaria, " did not remain 

 to winter with us." Its presence with us in winter has since 

 been abundantly proved, but we still believe that this is the 

 exception. 



Not a little labour has been bestowed by one of us in sifting 

 the papers of the late Mr. T. C. Heysham. These, though in 

 many ways disappointing, and often painful to decipher, are 

 constantly in unison with our own conclusions already published, 

 and, in one or two cases, supply dates previously uncertain. It 

 is our intention to issue reports on our local Natural History 

 from year to year; those for 1886 and 1887-8 have successively 

 appeared. In these it is only possible to touch upon a few 

 points of general interest; but archaeological and field-notes 

 are duly entered up for future use. Mr. Duckworth has taken 

 up residence at Ulverston, from which he hopes to take more or 

 less frequent field excursions into Westmoreland. 



The following notes may serve as a brief supplement to the 

 ' Birds of Cumberland' : — 



Saxicola isabellina, Isabelline Wheatear. — Female, shot at 

 Allonby, November, 1887, by Mr. J. Mann. Sent in the flesh 

 to me, and presented to the National Collection, as the first 

 example detected in Western Europe. (' Ibis,' Jan. 1888.) 



Euticilla jihoenicurus, Redstart. — In a nest of the Pied Fly- 

 catcher, Muscicapa atricapilla, which we procured for the National 

 Collection in 1888, Mr. Tandy and I found a young Redstart, 

 which the old Flycatchers were rearing with their own proper 

 brood. 



Ruticilla titys, Black Redstart.— One seen on the outskirts of 

 Carlisle, Nov. 12th, 1886. 



Loxia bifasciata, White-winged Crossbill.— In the historical 

 visitation of 1845, eleven were shot in Cumberland, nine of them 

 in female plumage. 



Octocorys alpestris, Shore Lark. — In addition to one specimen 

 recorded, I know of two others killed on our seaboard. 



Cypselus melba, Alpine Swift (' Birds of Cumberland,' p. 63).— 

 The St. Bees bird — the only one known to have been killed in 

 Cumberland— was obtained in July, 1842. It is now preserved at 

 Crofton Hall by Sir Musgmve Brisco, Bart. 



