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is in skins, but not in life. The bill of the adult female is 

 also never correctly described, and Mr. Millais again errs 

 in giving it (p. 80) as the same as in the male but paler, viz. 

 olive-green. 



The colour of the bill of the adult female shortly after 

 death is pale mauve or bluish-grey from its base to the base 

 of the nostrils, and this colour also very soon disappears. 



H. W. Robinson. 



GREEN SANDPIPER IN PERTHSHIRE. 



The Green Sandpiper {Tringa ocrophus) is scarce in 

 northern Scotland, and it is therefore worth recording 

 that I saw one on the north shore of Loch Rannoch, on 

 August 5th, 1913. The date is rather early, but Saunders 

 {Manual, p. 609) states that individuals occur even in July. 

 I examined the bird several times through field-glasses, 

 and was struck by its large size, extremely white under- 

 parts, and the absence of the jerky motion of the tail -so 

 characteristic of the Common Sandpiper. 



Clifford Borrer. 



BLACK-TAILED GODWIT IN SUSSEX. 



An example of the Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) 

 was obtained at Pevensey, on July 12th, 1913. I examined 

 it in the flesh on the 13th and found it to be an adult female. 

 Black -tailed Godwits do not as a rule put in an appearance 

 here before August or September, and then only on very 

 rare occasions. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



LITTLE CRAKE IN SUSSEX. 



On July 19th, 1913, a specimen of the Little Crake {Porzana 

 parva) was caught by a dog at Bopeep, St. Leonards, and 

 was seen by me in the flesh on the 20th, when it proved 

 to be a female. A second example, a male, was shot in 

 the old brickfield, at St. Leonards, on July 25th. Probably 

 these birds were a pair. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



MOORHEN CARRYING HER YOUNG ON HER BACK. 



On July 5th, 1913, in company with Mr. Bryan, I was passing 

 a large pond near Cheadle, Staffordshire, when a half -grown 

 Moorhen swam out from the bank and was joined by what 

 appeared to be the mother-bird, and the two swam about, 

 ten yards or so from where we stood. The parent-bird dived 

 several times, and some minutes afterwards we observed 

 something rise up on her back, and this turned out to be a 

 still younger bird, only a few days old, and as the pond was 



