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Mr. Euwes made some further remarks on the great, 
abundance of Woodcocks in the north-eastern counties 
of England this year. Since his last statement he had 
heard of 60 being killed in one wood in Lincolnshire in 
January and 35 in another, in both cases many more than 
had been killed in the same woods early in December. 
This seems to show that a further immigration had taken 
place, probably from the Continent, as, though the cold 
in October and November had driven the home-bred Wood- 
cock out of the north and east of Scotland, the weather had 
been normal in December. 87 had been killed on one day 
in Cornwall; but in South Wales, probably owing to the 
unusual dryness of the land, the numbers in November were 
much below the usual. 
Mr. ARTHUR DE CaRLE Sowersy sent the following com- 
munication, ‘On a new Rose-Finch from Siberia ”:— 
While going over some material in the British Museum 
of Natural History, South Kensington, I had occasion to 
examine specimens of the genus Uragus, the so-called Long- 
tailed Rose-Finches that inhabit Siberia and neighbouring 
parts of Manchuria, Mongolia, the Japanese Islands, Corea, 
and North China. These birds were first discovered by 
Pallas in the Altai and Thian Shan, and were named first 
Loxia sibirica (Reise d. versch. Prov. d. Russ. Reichs. 
ii. Anhang, pp. 711 & 712, 1773) and later Pyrrhula 
caudata (Zoogr. Ross.-As. ii. pp. 10 & 11, 1827). Sub- 
sequently Temminck and Schlegel described a new form — 
from Japan, under the name Pyrrhula sanguinolenta (Faun. 
Jap. Av. p. 92, pls. 54, 545). In 1877 David and Oustalet 
described yet a third form from North-western China, under 
the name Uragus lepidus (Ois. Chine, p. 359, Taf. 98), while 
in 1915 Buturlin separated the birds belonging to this genus 
inhabiting the Ussuri, which up to then had been con- 
sidered as representing the Japanese sanguinolentus, under 
the subspecific name of U. sibiricus ussuriensis (Mess. Orn. 
vi. p. 128). 
There is a good series of these birds in the British Museum 
