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a female Sand Grouse was picked up on the railway embankment at Clontarf, 

 Co. Dublin, having been maimed by flying against a telegraph-wire. A male 

 specimen was forwarded from Athlone, by Mr. W. Turkington. Two were 

 shot out of a flock of five." From Mr. James Tank, taxidermist, Aungier 

 Street, Dublin: — "One specimen was received in the beginning of June 

 from Belluiullet, Co. Mayo. It was shot while being pursued by a hawk. 

 Four others were seen in the same place, two of them being killed. The 

 gentleman who sent the first-named Sand Grouse (the Rev. Henry Hewson) 

 does not know what became of them." Besides the above-mentioned 

 specimens of Syrrhaptes paradoxus from Irish localities, I hear that one 

 was received by Mr. R. J. Ussher from Co. Wexford, and one (a male) by 

 Mr. R. M. Barrington, of Fassaroe, Co. Wicklow. I may add that I have 

 myself seen most of the specimens above recorded, aud that two of them — 

 viz. one from Mr. Burton and another from Mr. Sherlock — have been 

 presented to the Natural History Museum, Dublin. — Robert F. Schaeff 

 (Nat. Hist. Museum, Dublin). 



Sand Grouse in Yorkshire. — I have had sent to me a pair of Pallas's 

 Sand Grouse, which were shot out of a flock of about twenty-five, at 

 Burnistou, near Scarborough, on May 16th. — Riley Fortune (Harrogate). 



Sand Grouse breeding in Durham. — A correspondent writes " A nest 

 with three young is near here." I hope they will have flown before this is 

 printed.— S. L. Mosley (Huddersfield, July, 1888). 



Sand Grouse breeding in Cumberland. — We have just seen (Aug. 32), 

 in the hands of Mr. Stevens, the well-known Auctioneer, of King Street, 

 Covent Garden, two undoubted eggs of Sand Grouse stated to have been 

 taken near Carlisle in June last. As he was unable, beyond this, to supply 

 any information, we hope that our correspondent, Mr. H. A. Macpherson, 

 may be able to ascertain and report further particulars of so interesting 

 an event. They were offered for sale on August 21st, and bought in at a 

 reserved price. 



Sand Grouse at the Land's End. — I have at the present time in my 

 possession (August 18th) a male specimen of Pallas's Sand Grouse alive. 

 It was one of a flock of eleven seen at the Laud's End in May last, of 

 which three were killed and this one captured. I hope to restore it to 

 health sufficiently to send it to the Zoological Society's Gardens. I should 

 have advised you of the occurrence of this flock before, but I had no 

 personal knowledge of it, and I never care to report the occurrence of any 

 specimen on mere hearsay. — Thomas Cornish (Penzance). 



The Crossbill in the Hebrides. — Although a well-known bird in 

 Western Scotland, aud an irregular visitor to Shetland, the Crossbill, 

 Loxia curvirostra, has not been recorded hitherto from the Inner or Outer 

 Hebrides. I have therefore great pleasure iu recording its presence in 



