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Mr. Read is able to adduce—namely, the discovery of the nest and eggs.— 
Wirutam Evans (184, Morningside Park, Edinburgh). 
Eared Grebes in Norfolk.—In ‘ The Zoologist’ for 1884 (p. 488), and 
in the volume for 1885 (p. 480), I reported Hared Grebes, Podiceps nigri- 
collis, Brehm, as having been sent me from Hunstanton. Mr. Southwell 
wrote to me asking me to look carefully at them, and pointing out the 
difference in the wing of this bird and the Sclavonian Grebe, Podiceps 
auritus, Linn. (vide Saunders, ‘Manual of British Birds,’ p.708). Further 
inspection showed that while one (that of 1884) was a genuine Hared Grebe, 
the other was a Sclavonian Grebe, which is a much more common bird in 
Norfolk.—Jutian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 
(It is unfortunate that the specific name of auritus bestowed by Linneus 
should be found to appertain, not to the Hared Grebe, but to the Sclavonian 
Grebe, which until lately has been generally known as Podiceps cornutus. 
The Eared Grebe, it seems should be distinguished as P. nigricollis of 
C. L. Brehm.—Eb.] 
Black-winged Stilt in Nottinghamshire.—I have lately purchased 
for my collection, from Mr. J. Cording, taxidermist, of Cardiff, a fine 
specimen of this rare bird. It was shot on the banks of the Trent, near 
Nottingham, by Mr. White, in January, 1888.—Diesy S. W. NicHoLi 
(Cowbridge). [An unusual date surely for this species.—Ep.] 
The Food of Albatrosses, their Measurements, and Geographical 
Range.—In consequence of our conversation about Albatrosses, I have put 
down a few memoranda of my own experiences of them. With regard to the 
food of Diomedea exulans, I caught several of these during my voyage to 
Australia in the sailing-ship ‘ Anna Robertson,’ in the year 1851, and skinned 
and dissected them. Without exception, I found in the stomach the beaks of 
large cuttle-fish, apparently Calamaries. The beaks were quite as large as 
those of large Octopi, 4ft. long, which I have dissected; and I have frequently 
seen the birds lift some large object from the water, which might well 
have been the animals to which the beaks belonged. A living specimen of 
Diomedia melanophrys, which I kept for some time and brought home, and 
gave to the Zoological Society, would eat nothing but fish not salted, but 
he survived a fast of about six days of the voyage, when no fresh fish was 
procurable. It was December when I passed from the longitude of the Cape 
of Good Hope to Cape Leeuwin, about the latitude 48° to 45°, and we saw 
but few Albatrosses till we got to lat. 40°. The first we saw were, I suppose, 
D. melanophrys, aud then others of the allied forms, such as D. cylminata, 
D. chlororhyncha, and also the Sooty Albatross, and Giant Petrel. The 
number of D exulans increased the further south we went. We had a 
succession of cyclones, and the birds were in every case caught during the 
calm preceding the cyclone. No young ones were caught, and all were in 
