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obtained a conviction at Newmarket, against a man named Fenn, of 
Isleham. The Society's officer, in July last, went to the premises of this 
birdeatcher, and there found huddled together, in all the dirty misery it 
was possible for them to be in, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Linnets, Plovers, 
and other birds, all of which had been recently captured during the close 
time. The man was convicted and fined 15s. It is to be hoped that the 
conviction will operate beneficially, and the law may continue to be 
enforced by the Society, of which we should be glad to hear more. 
Golden Oriole in Derbyshire.—A beautiful male specimen of this bird 
was shot just over the county boundary at Creswell, Derbyshire, on 
May 18th. Why will not people observe the Wild Birds Protection Act, 
and give this and other beautiful birds a chance to stay and nest here?— 
J. WH1TAKER (Rainworth, Notts). 
Great Crested Grebe breeding in Scotland.—I have this year 
discovered in the South of Scotland the nest and eggs of the Great Crested 
Grebe, Podiceps cristatus. As I am not aware that this bird has been 
recorded to breed in Scotland, a note of the occurrence may be of interest.— 
Rosert H. Reap (Cutheart, Glasgow). 
[Selby states (ii. p. 394) that this bird breeds on a few of the northern 
Scottish lakes, but does not specify any locality. This is not confirmed by 
Messrs. Harvie Brown and Buckley (p. 245), and Robert Gray, in his 
‘Birds of the West of Scotland’ (p. 405), adds nothing to this bare 
statement.—ED.|] 
REPTILES. 
Addendum to the List of Reptiles found in Barbados.—In the 
August number of ‘ The Zoologist’ (pp. 295—298) is published a list of the 
terrestrial reptiles of the island of Barbados, in which I stated that only 
one species of snake is found there. This statement has now to be modified. 
Mr. G. A. Boulenger, on examining the small collection of reptiles from 
Barbados that I submitted to him, reported that it only contained one 
species of snake, Liophis perfuscus, Cope. I was then under the impression 
that Mr. Boulenger had seen all the reptiles collected by me in Barbados ; 
but, through an oversight on my part, another small snake had got astray 
amongst some bottles containing Barbados mammals. This specimen has 
since been handed over to Mr. Boulenger, who identifies it as Stenostoma 
bilineatum, Schleg., hitherto known from Martinique and Guadeloupe. Mr. 
Boulenger remarks in a letter to me that the habits of the Stenostomatide 
being very much those of earthworms, they may easily be transported 
in mould. ‘This little snake is certainly very rare in Barbados; but its 
existence is known to some of the planters, for Mr. T. E. N. Dean, of 
St. Nicholas, mentioned to me that there was a second species of snake or 
slow-worm found in the island,—black, and a few inches long,—generally 
under heaps of decayed leaves or litter, and that the coloured people call it 
