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species. A Thick-knee, Gidicnemus crepitans, on April 28th, and another 
on Nov. 7th; two Dotterels, Hudromias morinellus, were brought in on 
Sept. 11th—the first seen during the twenty-eight years he has carried on 
the business of a birdstuffer; on Oct. 27th, a Great Grey Shrike, a Raven, 
and a cream-coloured Blackbird were received.—Henry Havriep (Ventnor, 
Isle of Wight). 
Notes on Birds in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.—A short time ago, 
hearing of some “ English wild Canaries” at a birdstuffer’s at Saffron 
Walden, I went to see what they might be, and here give a description of 
them. One, which was living in a cage with some Redpolls and a Twite, 
looked almost exactly like a hen Siskin, except that it had a very short and 
stout beak, almost like that of a Bullfinch. A light yellow stripe over the 
eye was very conspicuous. ‘This bird was caught near Saffron Walden. 
The others (there were two more) were stuffed, aud the owner told me that 
one of them was caught near J.ondon, and had been living in the Zoo. 
This was a much more gaily-coloured bird than the living one. The fore- 
head, throat, sides of neck just behind the auriculars, and breast being 
bright greenish yellow, with a few dark streaks on the flanks. The back 
was much greyer than a cuck Siskin’s, with dark streak down ceutre of each 
feather, getting yellowish gieen lower down, and tail-coverts the same 
colour as the back; top of head plain greyish green. I suppose they were 
cock and hen Serin Finch; but as I have never before seen a specimen of 
this bird, Iam not certain about them. In June last I went to the same 
shop to see some Sand Grouse. ‘The birdstuffer, Mr. Travis, had several 
in the flesh, two of which I saw weighed; the male was 114 oz., and the 
female 11 0z., aud they were both very fat. I cannot help thinking that, if 
they are not all killed, but are given a chance, until next breeding season, 
~ they will have become so far acclimatised that they will certainly breed. 
While staying in Norfolk for the partridge season, we were continually 
hearing of Sand Grouse in the neighbourhood, and many were shot on the 
sand-hills. But we did not come across them until October 24th, when we 
saw a large flock of them get up from a field of white turnips, which 
afforded very thin cover. We were out partridge-hawking with a cast of 
tiercels, and had just got a covey marked down, and were proceeding to 
put up one of the tiercels, when these Sand Grouse got up, very wild, about 
200 yards off. I should say that there were considerably over one hundred 
of them ; they flew very fast, and kept rising and falling in deep undulating 
curves, at oue time fifty feet up im the air, and anon shooting down and 
skimming close to the ground. They uttered a peculiar bubbling whistle. 
My friend Mr. T. J. Mann, with whom I was staying, had about this time 
acquired a pair alive, one of which was injured against telegraph wires, 
and the other was shot, one pellet grazing the top of its head and stunning 
it. There were three found at the same time under the telegraph-wires, 
