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it was from time to time resting. This seemed strange enough, but how 

 this tiny bird can manage to cross the sea without a rest is to me a greater 

 wonder. — J. E. Harting. 



Keport on the Migration of Birds. — As some of your readers may 

 fail to find the " Llyn Wells" or "Llynwells" light- vessel, so often men- 

 tioned in the Reports of the Migration Committee on any map of the 

 Welsh coast, where they would be most likely to search for it, it may be 

 well to explain that the Lynn Wells light-vessel referred to is moored in 

 the W^ash between the counties of Norfolk and Lincoln. — T. Southwell 

 (Norwich). 



Tawny Pipit near Brighton. — A specimen of this rare visitor, the 

 Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris, was taken iu a net close to the Ditchling 

 Eoad, about a mile from Brighton, on August 35th, and upon dissection 

 proved to be a male. — R. W. Chase (Edgbaston, Birmingham). 



[The number of rare Passerine birds (rare, that is, in England) which 

 are captured by the birdcatchers near Brighton is very remarkable. In 

 this locality Anthus campestris has occurred more frequently than in other 

 parts of England, while its visits, always in autumn, have hitherto been 

 confined to the southern counties. — Ed.] 



Long-tailed Duck in Cumberland.— The Long-tailed Duck, Harelda 

 glacialis, was first obtained in Cumberland in November, 1834, since which 

 date a very few immature birds have been killed upon the Solvvay and its - 

 tributaries. In 1884 a male bird was killed on March 19th, and I saw a 

 small party on the Solway in the succeeding November. No others were 

 heard of until the 10th October last, when an adult female bird was shot 

 near Silloth, and forwarded to me through Mr. Duckworth. The date is 

 earlier than any previously obtained in autumn. — H. A. Macpherson. 



Purple Heron in Lancashire. — An example of the Purple Heron, 

 Ardea purpurea, was killed, on the 7th April last, in the neighbourhood of 

 Alderley Edge, about thirteen miles from Manchester. It was an adult 

 male bird, and weighed 2 lbs. 4 oz. ; width between the extended wings, 

 4 ft. 8i in. ; length from tip of bill to sole of foot, '6 ft. 10 inches. — 

 J. PicKiN (83, Bridge Street, Manchester). 



Crossbills in Kent. — In a note communicated to the 'Rochester 

 Naturalist' for October, 1887 (p. 311), Mr. Henry Lamb reports that a pair 

 of Crossbills, Loxia curvirostra, were shot near Maidstone in July last. 



Open Nests of the Tawny Owl and Stock Dove. — Apropos of the 

 remarks on this subject (p. 347j I may state that I found a Tawny Owl 

 last year almost at the top of a spruce fir. This was in July. There 

 were four eggs in the nest, which had evidently been deserted, as they 

 were all addled, and much discoloured by exposure to the weather. This 



