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park here. The bird was a male, and had been seen about the park for 

 several days, in company with two ducks of the natural colour. It had 

 the crown and a large patch on each side of the head of the usual colour ; 

 the rest of the head and neck white. The dark brown band on the upper 

 part of the breast was absent, the ordinary grey colour of the under parts 

 extending to the neck ; belly, yellowish white ; back, tail, and under tail- 

 coverts of the usual colour ; a few white feathers in the upper tail-coverts ; 

 wings white, with the exception of a few feathers in one of them. — G. H. 

 Caton Haigh (Grainsby Hall, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire). 



Waxwing in Aberdeenshire, — -In a small garden near the Luraphanan 

 Railway Station, during the last fortnight in December, a solitary Waxwing 

 was seen daily. It was very tame, suffering an approach within a few yards, 

 and when scared did not fly far. It was feeding voracious' y on the red 

 berries of the Cotoneaster. — George Brown (Elsick House, by Stone- 

 haven, Kincardineshire). 



[The appearance of this occasional winter visitor is most uncertain and 

 irregular. Sometimes we hear of flocks arriving, sometimes a winter will 

 pass without one being seen or at least reported. The last we heard of 

 was seen at Hickling in January, 1884, as recorded in ' The Zoologist' for 

 1885, p. 55.— Ed.] 



Blue-throat in Norfolk— Correction of Error.— Allow me to correct 

 a statement in 'The Zoologist' for 1886. The Blue-throated Warbler 

 recorded, at p. 160, by Mr. J. H. Gurnev, jun., as having been shot by 

 Mr. G. Hunt on the Horsey sand-hills on Sept. -^Sth, 1885, was only a 

 female Redstart. It was, moreover, on the Winterton sand-hills where 

 Mr. Hunt " wiped my eye" at this bird ; we were both labbit-shooting and 

 on the look out for Blue-throats, when the "fire-tail" of this bird when 

 rising attracted my notice. Mr. Hunt shot a Black Redstart at West 

 Somm-ton in October, 1885, and on the 19th December, 1886, a female or 

 immature male Black Redstart came into Mr. Bonner's greenhouse at East 

 Rudham, where it continued for two or three days until allowed to go 

 fiee. — Maukick C. H. Bird (West Rudham, Norfolk). 



Harlequin Duck on the Northumbrian Coast.— On December 6th 

 I received in the flesh and in a perfectly fresh condition a Harlequin 

 Duck, shot on Deo. ^nd off the coast of Northumberland, near the Fame 

 Islands. The correspondent who kindly sent it to me tells me he never met 

 with such a bird before, and that there were three swimming together close 

 to the islands. He shot them all, but only succeeded in getting two of 

 them. Probably the wounded bird became the prey of some large gull. 

 My specimen is a young male, and probably a bird of the previous year, as 

 the white patch of feathers near the carpal joint of each wing, the pure 

 white spot behind the eye, tlie stripe on the neck, and the chestnut 



