384 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



I am awiiie, tliere is no previous record of anything like so many as sixty-two 

 examples of this cetacean being captured at one time. — J. E. Harting. 



BIRDS. 



Ornithological Notes from Hunstanton, Norfolk. — Adult Sanderlings 

 appeared in considerable flocks on the shore at Hunstanton during the first 

 week of August. On the 4th I saw four Cormorants, and the same day 

 had a good view of a Seal, which had been basking on a sand-bank off Holme 

 Point. On August 25th I met with a flock of Curlew Sandpipers, and 

 obtained two specimens, one a fine mature bird in almost full summer 

 plumage, and also saw four or five Little Stints, one of which I shot. I have 

 never met with eitlier species here before. On the '27th I got another 

 Curlew Sandpiper, an immature bird, from a flock of Ring Plovers feeding 

 on the shore near the old Hunstanton life-boat house. Curlews, Whimbrels, 

 and Oystercatchers have been passing along shore daily to and from their 

 feeding grounds with the rise and fall of the tide. Arctic, Common, and 

 Lesser Terns have been very abundant, the two latter species especially so, 

 congregating in large flocks on the beach and on the sand-banks. I am 

 glad to say that I thinl< very few have been shot. Many of the readers of 

 ' The Zoologist' have no doubt read with much regret of the wholesale 

 slaughter of Kittiwakes and other sea-birds during the last few weeks at 

 their breeding stations, especially at Flamborough Head, and it might be 

 worth the consideration of ornithologists whether some united effort could 

 not be made for the extension of the close-time for sea-birds till August 20th 

 or Sept. 1st. — Julian G. Tuck (St. Mary's, Buckuall, Stoke- on-Treut). 



[From the accounts which have lately reached us of the wanton 

 destruction of sea-birds before they are strong on the wing at Bridlington 

 and Flamborough, we should rejoice to see the close-time extended as 

 proposed to Sept. 1st. — Ed.] 



The Nightingale in Scotland. — A writer in 'The Scotsman' of 

 Sept. 19lh last, after citing the correspondence between David Earl of 

 Buchan and the Hon. Daines Barrington, a century ago, relative to a 

 proposed attempt to introduce the Nightingale into Scotland, recapitulates 

 the methods suggested by Lord Buchan for the benefit of any enterprising 

 naturalist who may feel inclined to repeat the experiment, namely, "(1) to 

 procure from England several pairs of Nightingales trapped in the beginning 

 of April, before they build ; (2) to procure eggs and place them in the nests 

 of the genus Motacilla ; and (3) to bring down a number of nestlings, with 

 hen Sky Larks for nurse, and cage Nightingales in full song for instructors." 

 On May 16th, 1795, Mr. Thomas Milne, Curator of the Botanical Gardens 

 at Oxford, succeeded in obtaining five Nightingale's eggs, which he instantly 

 dispatched to Lord Buchan by the ' Royal Charlotte.' They reached him 

 on the 19th. By the 21st he had discovered, after much search, a Hedge- 

 sparrow's nest, where her first egg had been laid about two hours before ; 



