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(Birds Norf. ii. pp. 85, 86); but the cock bird was (we understand from 
Prof. Newton, who had the story from Mr. W. Bilson in 1855) offered to 
his father by the notorious otidicide George Turner.—Ep. ] 
Sand Grouse in Yorkshire.—I have to report the occurrence of three 
Sand Grouse, one male and two females, which have come into my 
possession. One of the females was found dead in a fallow field near 
York, and the other two were shot near Beverley in June last. The male 
bird was a particularly fine one, by far the best I-have seen out of some 
sixty specimens which I have examined ; the bright orange feathers at each 
side of the head being unusually fine, and the length of the two central 
tail feathers, and the first primary of each wing, being especially noticeable. 
The majority of the birds I have seen were in poor plumage (some 
well advanced in moult), and chiefly females. The sixty specimens 
examined by me were all shot in Yorkshire—Wittram Hewert (3, Wilton 
Terrace, Fulford Road, York). 
Pallas’s Sand Grouse in Cornwall.—I was much interested in Mr, 
Southwell’s article on ‘ Pallas’s Sand Grouse,’ which appeared in the 
‘ Zoologist ’ for December last ; for during the previous months of August, 
September, and October, I was the fortunate possessor of a live male 
of this species. It was fairly tame when I received it, having then been in 
captivity about two months, and consequently I could observe its actions to 
advantage. Mr. Southwell mentions, from information he was able to 
gather, that when in captivity the Sand Grouse show a great indifference to 
water. J kept my bird in a cage made out of an old wine-case padded at 
the top to prevent injury to the bird when flying up suddenly. The 
bottom of the cage I covered with fine sea-sand about an inch in depth, but 
I soon had to substitute straw, as [ found the bird’s legs and belly. were 
always in a mess from its persistently getting into the water-trough. I at 
first thought it had fallen in by accident when flying to the top of the cage, 
but having watched it for some time, I saw it on several occas'ons 
deliberately get into the water and remain there for some minutes at a 
time. On different occasions I have seen it drink, which it did after the 
manner of a Pigeon, filling the throat well before lifting its beak out of the 
water. Unfortunately it never got through the moult, and died in 
the month of October. On January 3rd, I had brought to me in the flesh 
another male Sand Grouse. It had been shot at Kelynack, in St. Just-in- 
Penwith, the same place from whence I obtained my live specimen.— 
Tuomas CorRNIsH (Penzance). 
Sand Grouse in Kent.—It may interest you to hear that a specimen 
of Pallas’s Sand Grouse was picked up in the fog on the 14th December 
last with its head cut clean off, lying underneath the telegraph wires on the 
Isle of Grain railway. Three weeks previously four Sand Grouse had been 
